Sunday Cinema: The Romance of Naval Aviation (1970)

BySteeljawscribe 29 June 2014

Quite a review of the types present in Naval Air in 1970…although they are missing one major player…

Flightdeck Friday: “Big E” Edition – Update!!

BySteeljawscribe 30 November 20121 December 2012

BREAKING NEWS…Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Ray Mabus has just announced that the next Ford Class Carrier, CVN-80 will be named USS Enterprise during his speech at the inactivation ceremony for CVN-65. Long live the name Enterprise! The USS Enterprise (CVN 65) is slated for decommissioning tomorrow in a ceremony at NOB Norfolk, bringing…

9/11 Remembered | history lessons | Reflections

Remembering When the Sky Turned Black – 11 September 2001

BySteeljawscribe 10 September 201210 September 2015

I remember, a sky so blue it burned your eyes to look up . . .and smoke that scarred your lungs; I remember shipmates . . . and a piece of notebook paper listing for whom the bell had tolled; We remember that for one brief moment it wasn’t New Yorkers, or Washingtonians, or businessmen…

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“Never Again…”

BySteeljawscribe 15 December 200616 January 2012

Tonight, at sundown, begins the celebration of Hanukkah by our Jewish brothers and sisters. Coming as it does on the heels of the “the Holocaust is a Fake” conference of alleged “scholars” (and trust me, that term is extremely loosely applied) in Tehran, it reminds us of the continuing struggle between the Light of Truth…

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TINS* Tuesday: Riderless Horse

BySteeljawscribe 3 October 200628 February 2010

Reveille came early at 0400 for the A-7B pilots of a light attack squadron deployed aboard an attack carrier. Briefing was scheduled at 0445 with the first launch at 0600. Two of the four scheduled Corsair IIâ€™s completed the launch and, after the mission was completed, returned for an IFR recovery. The two pilots separated…

Air Warfare | history lessons | Navy | Reflections

â™«â™¬ Oh When the Drone is Called Up Yonder… â™¬â™«

BySteeljawscribe 14 May 2013

â™«â™¬…When the Drone is Called Up Yonder I’ll be There…â™¬â™« (with apologies to James M. Black)Â 😀 First the news and a congratulatory note to the Navy-Industry team behind today’s launch of the X-47B off the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77): Of course, as any end-of-deployment flyoff crew knows, it is a heck of…

history lessons | Nuclear weapons | Reflections

“If there are enough shovels to go around…”

BySteeljawscribe 14 March 200824 December 2016

“…everybody’s going to make it.” – Thomas K. Jones, 1982 Counterveil vs. Countervalue… Decapitating strikes… Winning a protracted nuclear war… Nuclear calculus… These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980’s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval…

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xbradtc says:

29 June 2014 at 13:35

Little Low A-6 in the middle, Little Not Enough Hummer in the groove, OK-3.
Steeljawscribe says:

29 June 2014 at 14:37

Note the suspend launch evolution at 1:08. Also decided lack of float coats on flightdeck personnel.
w/r, SJS
.5mt says:

30 June 2014 at 06:42

F-86 Naval variant landing towards the end of the reel?
Steeljaw Scribe says:

30 June 2014 at 08:24

FJ Fury
Capt Mongo says:

25 July 2014 at 17:52

All we AIC types trained with FJ-4 types at NAS Glynco in days past. Fortune hunter squadron, as I recall.

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