More Hawkeye Pics
Via Pinch, comes a bevy of new E-2D shots from NAVAIR:
Via Pinch, comes a bevy of new E-2D shots from NAVAIR:
Overnight: 25-26 October During the night, crews on the Hornet positioned aircraft on the flightdeck if the prospects of a night strike by moonlight made themselves present. In the meantime, PBY Catalina’s, using the first crude airborne radar sets, continued to try to locate the Japanese fleet in the darkness. Shortly after midnight, one PBY…
Today Steve Ambrose joins the project with the battle of the Eastern Solomons. Â A former S-3 NFO, Steve has a wonderful blog that runs the gamut from hand-crafted wooden canoes to an on-line novel about life at sea (‘On The Line‘). Coral Sea was the scene of the first carrier vs carrier battle where…
Well, Carrier may have left one with the impression that the air wing was composed solely of Hornettes, but this month’s Air & Space magazine (official publication of the National Air and Space Museum) thinks otherwise with a feature article: E-2s, the electronic eyes of the fleet, have been in production longer than any military…
Our good friend and blogger-in-arms, Mike (of NoAngstZone) has been having some connectivity problems of late (we suspect the ChiComs, but it’s likely a problem resident at Blogger HQ). In the interim, we’ve offered a temp home over here so here’s his first posting as a Guest Author. Welcome aboard Mike! – SJS Knowing…
So — too long a wait list for the F-35? Got a “speak to the hand” when you queried as to the possibility of an F-22? Super Hornet too much like a rental Camry than a leased Bimmer for your tastes? Well, the good folks at Boeing have just the ride for you: ST. LOUIS,…
Sometime in April 1958, Lockheed first undertook the study of a replacement for the U-2. Unlike the U-2, this would be an aircraft able to cruise at Mach 3, with a range of over 4,000 nm at altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft. It would also have an RCS (radar cross section) smaller than the U-2 and…
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She’s beautiful!!!
Shiny and clean! No salt spray.
Glass cockpits and color big-screens for the Moles, no less.
Did I notice a receptacle for mid-air refueling behind the cockpit? If so, those triple cycles just got a lot longer (if we buy the things).
Shiny indeed 🙂 Makes me wish I were a JO again – but then, I’m betting the guys who finished out in Fudds felt the same way in retirement when looking at the (then) new E-2C ARPS in ’78…
– SJS
The color “big” screens look similar to the ones in the HE2K; I’d just like to have the brand new radar to populate it. And we’re going to need some new seats if we’re going to do AAR; my bottom is only rated for 5.0…
Wow…sucking up the gear before the end of the runway, close formation flying, breaks and low passes over the field.
And all with a yoke and not a stick…
The Fighter Union is gonna be over to break a few kneecaps..
And…link to pics large enough for use for wallpapers, please?
Great shots…to bad the O will slow the production rate.