Hawkeye Week!

BySteeljawscribe 1 October 201210 October 2012

Â A little Hawkeye Love over at Travel for Aircraft this week — head on over for a series of posts, and many photos of the mighty War Hummer!

(props – literally to JM)

Air Warfare | Flightdeck Friday | history lessons | Navy

Project CADILLAC: The Beginning of AEW in the US Navy (Part II)
BySteeljawscribe 9 October 201011 October 2010

Project CADILLAC (Part II) Â Â Â Â Project Cadillac was more than just a program to develop radar â€“ it would develop an entire AEW system — Radar, IFF, relay equipment, shipboard receivers, and airborne platform. Such an undertaking would be ambitious enough in peacetime, at the height of a critical stage in the…

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Boeing Unveils the F-15SE ‘Silent Eagle’
BySteeljawscribe 17 March 200917 March 2009

So — too long a wait list for the F-35?Â Got a “speak to the hand” when you queried as to the possibility of an F-22?Â Super Hornet too much like a rental Camry than a leased Bimmer for your tastes?Â Well, the good folks at Boeing have just the ride for you: ST. LOUIS,…

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Air Warfare | history lessons | Navy | Reflections

Midway 70 Years Later and the Dauntless on My Desk
BySteeljawscribe 4 June 201230 August 2014

In every battle there is a moment when the combatants, and the world, seem to catch their breath. It is a fleeting moment, lost in the blink of an eye. But in that same blink, everything changes. Such moments are borne of desperation, of courage, of plain dumb luck. But they are pivotal — for…

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Red Bulls: Of Replication, the B-29 and TU-4 Bull
BySteeljawscribe 30 April 200728 March 2010

One of the threads arising out of the F-22 “Raptor-ski” post was the practice of using foreign designs to advance indigenous efforts. All nations, at one time or another, have used this process. The US manned space program though Apollo, for example, is but an outgrowth of Werner von Braun’s concepts and designs which in…

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Fifth Generation Fighters – The Competition Casts Its Ballot (UPDATED)
BySteeljawscribe 29 January 201030 January 2010

UPDATE: Lots of comparisons to the F-22 based on the front end shots and planform, but I’m also thinking that Sukhoi took some cues from this bad boy: based on a comparison from the tailfeather POV: for comparison, here is an in-flight of the YF-22 and YF-23: Things that make you go hmmm…. In this…

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Air Warfare | history lessons | Joint Warfare | Maritime Strategy

Thought for the Day
BySteeljawscribe 22 November 2010

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