Anybody else bothered by the naming of US aircraft carriers after people who were still living at the time? I'm sure that Carl Vinson (CVN-70) & John C. Stennis (CVN-74) did good thing but to have a carrier named after them? I wish the US Navy would go back to naming carriers after famous battles &...

I was wondering if there were any retired Naval Aviators who have flight hours logged with the dreaded F7U Cutlass. I work at the National Museum of Naval Aviation here in Pensacola. We currently have one on display. Aesthetically speaking, it's a pretty nice looking plane, but I have read a lot of...

Here is what is to me an interesting picture, the USS Yorktown is sailing in reverse, the aft end of her flight deck is full, and a airplane is preparing to land, flying in over her bow. http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/021019.jpg Some of the discussion...

An online article suggests, without citation or reference, that the U.S. Marine Corps nicknamed its Apache helicopter (through three models) as "The Duke," presumably in honor of actor John Wayne. I cannot find corroboration for this statement in web searches. Has anyone here with either...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/08/08/GA2008080802276.html?sid=ST2008080802320 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2008/08/08/ GA2008080802276.html?sid=ST2008080802320 Looks like the Flanker but I could be wrong, I can't quite tell if that is a single...

See the comments on pages 1 and 2 of the following blog entry: New Yorker's Sy Hersh: Bush Admin Helped Plan Israeli Offensive... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/13/new-yorkers-sy-he_n_27172.html Here is the tiny url for the above one: http://tinyurl.com/fzjvg

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Dallas Morning News June 12, 2007 Seeking Foreign Buyers For Osprey Pentagon shows off V-22 at ceremony in hopes of reducing cost for U.S. By Richard Whittle, Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News RIDLEY PARK, Pa. * Confident the V-22 Osprey will do well when it goes

Israel agenda wider war in Mideast: Analyst: http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/05/20/412019/Israel-Iran-Moshe-Yaalon-Lindsey-Graham-John-McCain Additional at America-Hijacked.com (USHijacked.com)

In addition to the C-130 Seaplane project: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a64bb9167-48b1-4857-9ddd-a01eb5e659b1 It looks...

D.C. anti-war rally on C-SPAN today at 8:15 AM on the west coast of US and at 11:15 AM on east coast - President Carter at Brandeis on C-SPAN 2's 'Book TV' today at 12:30 PM (on the west coast and at 3:30 PM on the east coast): Can also watch C-SPAN/C-SPAN 2 via computer using the broadcast...

In 1972 they were working on automated carrier landings. What is current status? "August 1972 5--A Naval Air Test Center pilot made the first fully automated landing aboard the carrier Ranger in an F-4J Phantom II. The test landing device links the plane's controls with a computer aboard...

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Another Zionist Jew trying to smoke screen the war for Israel agenda as he doesn't care how many Americans die/get horribly wounded for Israel in the Middle East like we have already experienced with the Iraq quagmire with Iran to come soon for Israel as well: Reality Check about Israeli...

In the LIFE magazine photo archives , found a set of photos they show a P5M-1 Marlin of VP-46 0304 sunk in what the caption sez is Quemoy strait or Quemoy harbor. Only the tail with the tailcode RC and 0304 , RC makes it VP-46 ,& Checking the BuNo list it should be BuNo 130304 ship 12 and the...

William is a classically trained singer - songwriter since childhood, born November 21, 1967 in Massachusetts, a Cape Cod native. He is also a sector cell terrorism expert, starting in summer 1984, age 16 & 16 years precognitively and prescient of September 11, 2001 with two CIA backed and...

Hi, Is anyone familiar with www.monkeyplan.com? It seems like its been down or inaccessible for a month or two now (that I've noticed). Does anyone have more info? Thanks. Ray

Another irreplaceable warbird gone. CONSOLIDATED VULTEE PBY-6A Catalina, BuNo 64041 (c/n 0169) civil registry N6458C, C-GFFI, now N85U Registered to FLYING FIREMAN INC of SPANAWAY Wa Flew as air tanker 85 retired and then restored, was being used in filming a movie about the sinking of the USS...

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I'm surely not the Senior Naval Aviator (remember that? "SNA"?) attending to this News Group although I may be the among the oldest - first carrier landing on March 17, 1954 - and I wonder, seriously, if the cross-posters realize what a disservice (read pain-in-the-ass) they are to those of us...