Flightdeck Friday – Bonus Edition
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas…
Prologue It began in December, 1943 with the delivery of the 8th and 9th YP-59 Airacomets (s/n 42-108778 and 42-100779) to the Navy for investigation of bringing jets to aircraft carriers. By all accounts, one wouldn’t have been surprised if the Navy had passed on the concept based on initial impressions from these prototypes (also…
Inspired Genius It is 1947 and Ed Heinemann of the Douglas Aircraft Corporation is perplexed. Charged with leading the team that is designing Douglas’ entry in the Navy’s heavy attack aircraft competition, he is trying to figure out how to accomplish this feat in an airframe that would weigh in at less than 68,000 lbs,…
The Official press release: Marine Pilot Missing In Action From WWII Is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors He is…
1212L/0812Z 16 June 1959. 78 nm east of Wonsan, North Korea, a P4M Mercator assigned to VQ-1 (BuNo 122209) is conducting another “ferret†mission in international airspace over the Sea of Japan. At the controls are LCDRs Don Mayer and Vince Anania. Fours hours into the mission a pair of silver MiG-17s approach the Mercator…
(Consider it an early weekend present — enjoy! Now, get to reading that new Maritime Strategy – lots of discussions next week and some surprises in the offering on this site…stay tuned. -SJS) 15 Oct 1962. Imagery from U-2 flights begun on the 14th continue to roll in for imagery analysts at NPIC (National Photographic…
OK, more Plane PÑ0n…gonna try something a little different, so look below the fold. Workplace safe, unless you’re on NMCI or related – then you won’t see anything