Chronicles of Naval Aviation: Tailcodes
Alas, the budgetary axe eventually fell on both the Steeljaws (’96) and Wing 12 (’05) so it would appear that would be the last time GE will fly on a Hawkeye…
– SJS
P.S. Hey Boom — SH is taken by VMFAT-101…
Alas, the budgetary axe eventually fell on both the Steeljaws (’96) and Wing 12 (’05) so it would appear that would be the last time GE will fly on a Hawkeye…
– SJS
P.S. Hey Boom — SH is taken by VMFAT-101…
(5 Nov Update): Read this for some perspective on the competiton. Check current status here. And don’t forget the auctions — there’s some really great stuff over there, including signed original artwork and books, rare memorabilia and other great things. So it’s not Friday – but as promised here, presented for your viewing pleasure, a…
Tomorrow we will have our Independence Day post up and in the busy comings goings of a three-day weekend, we encourage one and all to pause and ponder those words — mere words in some folks’ opinion; that our forefathers penned in Philadelphia that hot summer of 1776. Men had already died in the cause…
So the discussion earlier this week revolved around quantity vs quality and used as an argument in favor of quality that the Navy in the 1920’s and 30’s chose to press technology (and hence chose quality) over quantity (maintaining a large force structure), developing the tools, tactics and laying the groundwork for success in the…
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…
(a little early, but it fits the subject –SJS) Eighty-four Years Ago — The First Tailhooker! On October 26, 1922 LCDR Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, USN made the first arrested landing aboard the USS Langley, a converted coal collier (ex-USS Jupiter) and the Navy’s first aircraft carrier, underway off Cape Henry, VA. Already an accomplished aviator…
KIDO BUTAI First Carrier Striking Force VADM Nagumo Chuichi Chief of Staff: RADM Kusaka Ryunosuke Carrier Division 1 – VADM Nagumo Akagi (flagship) – Captain Aoki Taijiro, commanding 18 x A6M2 carrier fighters (aka Zero) 18 x D3A1 carrier bombers (aka Val) 18 x B5N2 carrier attack aircraft (aka Kate) 6 x A6M2 fighters (6th…