From the desk of PMA-231:
We live in an age marked by dwindling numbers of real pioneers and visionaries. Today we just lost another and we are all a bit poorer for it. – SJS From DoD News: Retired Navy Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer, regarded as the father of the Navy’s AEGIS Weapons System, passed away today. “I am…
In the mail today from ANA: 99 ANAers, Friends of ANA and Naval Aviation, A number of members have asked for more information about The Boeing Company’s great Public Television program, “Angle of Attackâ€. In case you missed it before, the schedule is in the attachment. It is a bit long but you should find…
Skippy-san thinks so: When the Navy was a lot larger-a lot of these billets did not exist, and we where an organization that was 200,000 people bigger and 300 ships bigger. Yet we still got ships deployed. Why does it take so many flag officers to do so now? It doesn’t-and you know it. More…
From Navy Times: When an E-2C Hawkeye snagged the arresting cable on the carrier John C. Stennis on Dec. 18, it marked the official end of naval air missions of the Iraq War. The Hawkeye, from Airborne Early Warning Squadron 112, the “Golden Hawks,†was shot off Stennis at 7:32 a.m. and provided early warning…
Full story here: Flight-Test Program Accelerates For U.S. Navy’s E-2D Couple of items worth noting: Within three years, the U.S. Navy’s fleet will have fielded the technology for precisely locating small, flying targets. The target set embraces some of the Navy’s latest nightmares, including the next-generation of stealthy – sometimes supersonic – cruise missiles.Moreover, with…
One of these will be next week’s feature (hint: not the the F7F – it’s already been done). Oh, and it will have a prop too… — Now, having said that, we could be persuaded by the readership towards one of the remaining tailhook candidates… Leave your vote in the comments section (international candidates…
