(the new Moskva/ex-Slava CSG) Shades of days of yore, the Moskva joined up with the Kuznetsov carrier group (or корабельной ударной группы (КУГ) – ship assault echelon (KUG)) for joint exercises conducted on the 20th. Sailing from her (or, if you perfer, his in the Russian vernacular) base at Sevastopol on the 12th, the…
So it’s back in the the Luftwurst for the trip back home today via a, no doubt, wx impacted intermediate point…in the meantime, here’s a couple of tidbits to tide you over until our return to the rolling hills of Occupied Territory and the warmth of Hearth and Home – SJS 21 January 1972 –…
Keep your friends close and your tigers closer…? OK – ‘fess up out there, who else has can relate to this?
19 January 1920: The Commandant NAS Pensacola reported that in the future no student would be designated a Naval Aviator or given a certificate of qualification as a Navy Air Pilot unless he could send and receive 20 words a minute on radio telegraph. (ed. Oh how the times have changed – eh? – SJS)…
Yep – the fabulous Hawker Sea Fury will be the next Flightdeck Friday subject — next week when we are back from TDY. In the meantime, here’s a look at next week’s subject flying form with a previous Flightdeck Friday star. More? OK — look below the fold…
Deployed correspondent Southern Air Pirate drops in with another post from the Truman CSG with notes from the post-Christmas period, dust-up in the Straits and observations of trying to work orders deployed. We well remember the latter, especially back in the day when one’s tools consisted primarily of waiting until pulling into Naples to go…
Hitting the Big Silver-Winged bird for a part of the country without ready access to the UNCLAS ‘net. Fear not – we’ve some articles queued up for the next few days, including a Flightdeck Friday, until we return a few days hence. …and no, sigh, not *that* kind of silver-winged bird, alas…
We’re going to depart from the normal topics usually found in these pages because of a most compelling article we found in yesterday’s Washington Post’s Health section highlighting an upcoming documentary on PBS. Fair warning – this is an emotionally compelling article and content. The documentary, titled, "The Lobotomist" is a look at how, as…
"At a minimum, Washington should delay the planned 2010 retirement of the Space Shuttle until a new space plane can replace it, as a way to retain a deterring potential military capability. China’s unwillingness to comment on its military space plans, coupled with the Shenlong space plane, confirms its larger aversion to military transparency. The…
14/0819L Jan 1969: USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) is conducting workups in preparations for combat operations off North Vietnam with CVW-9 embarked. First event for the day has just been launched and respot for second event is underway. USS Bainbridge and Rogers are in company. Aft of the isalnd, the exhaust from an "huffer" (jet starting unit) has…
