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Flightdeck Friday: The AM-1 Mauler
Today — the Martin AM-1 Mauler: In 1943 the Navy issued a requirement for a new series of carrier-based attack aircraft, looking to combine the heretofore separate missions of scout/dive bomber and torpedo bomber. The venerable Dauntless had been replaced by the problematic Curtis Helldiver and the TBF/M Avenger had assumed the torpedo and bomber…
Weekend Flight Plan
OK, so here’s the line-up for this w/end: Flightdeck Friday — what can YOU do with 4300 hp worth of radial engine? A plane only Tim Allen could love is up for tomorrow’s posting… Saturday — We hear again from Hobbes and his buddy and for good measure, with all the Tomcat sunset stories making…
9/11: The Evidence
(from the Washington Post) Officials at the federal court in Alexandria posted on the Web yesterday nearly all the evidence presented during the sentencing trial of Sept. 11, 2001, conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, marking the first time a federal court has provided such extensive online access in a criminal case. The 1,202 exhibits capture the drama…
diet coke and mentos Busby Berkley’s got nothing …
diet coke and mentosBusby Berkley’s got nothing on these guys…just wonder if an environmental impact statement was filed in the making of this flick 😉
Flightdeck Friday: AJ Savage
So it’s early — it is Friday somewhere else in the world… And for you DC Tailhookers, if you missed FCLP’s today, well, your loss! Jump in the wayback machine and set the dial for 1948… 1948 and the Navy was in trouble.Barely three years previous the US Navy was victoriously anchored in Tokyo Bay…
Outrage
Back online after going one-on-one with a balky router — but that’s not the source of tonight’s outrage… I could go on about former CIA chiefs who, not satisfied with having thoroughly messed up one institution, now presume to give us the benefit of their wisdom by writing of the passage of the big deck…
History – IAF in Lebanon War (1982) …Here’s one …
History – IAF in Lebanon War (1982)…Here’s one from the historical archives during the last dust-up in the region. For fellow Hawkeyes, what primary rule do you see the IAF crew violating?-SJS