It happens — sooner or later it happens that those of us who have managed to maintain ownership of our sports/performance vehicles are approached by our better halves with the question: “Hon…don’t you think it’s about time…?” And followed with something about a “practical” car or one that doesn’t cost so much to insure or…
There is a long-standing tradition in Naval Aviation that no screw-up goes unrecognized…just check out the variety of callsigns out there. Sometimes though, the screw-up is so monumental that it deserves special recognition — sort of like, um, landing on the wrong carrier. Recognition is afforded not unlike re-branding a steer that wandered off its…
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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 The venerable Dauntless had been replaced by the problematic Curtis Helldiver and the TBF/M Avenger had assumed the torpedo and bomber…
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…
(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 mentosBusby Berkley’s got nothing on these guys…just wonder if an environmental impact statement was filed in the making of this flick 😉
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…
