"Faced with the threat from swarms of small boats. the US Navy is looking to equip the sensor turrets of its shipborne helicopters with the ability to designate multiple targets for simultaneous attack by laser-guided missiles like...

Surely this is a typo ... "El CENTRO, Calif. (NNS) -- The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, performed for more than 200 spectators at Naval Air Facility (NAF) El Centro March 11, marking the beginning of the Blue Angels' 60th anniversary...

As everybody here probably knows, USAF F-105 Thunderchiefs and USN A-4 Skyhawks bore the brunt of the Rolling Thunder campaign from 1965 to 1968 and suffered accordingly. The F-105 and A-4 losses over North Vietnam were 282 and 173 respectively. Now the harder part. What were their loss rates...

Former Navy pilot Scott Crossfield dead at 84. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/georgia.plane.ap/index.html Flew the F6F and SNJ during the early 1940s. JD

I didn't know the Korean was was so long and involved so many " assets " .... -----------snip----------------------- " In particular, they released more than 15 million napalm bombs on military positions on the front and peaceful cities and farming and fishing villages in the...

Elsewhere I've read that the Tomcat flies "units" of AoA, not degrees, with its AoA range of -10 to +40 degrees being converted to units in the 0 to +30 range. That would mean the formula for converting units to degrees in that plane is . I've also read that approach AoA for the F-14 is 15 units,...

Just how much POL does "Dear Leader" have on hand assuming he's stupid enough to start a war.

DefenseNews (4/30/2007) U.S. Navy Debates STOVL JSF Future U.S. Marines, U.K. Worry About Their F-35 Variant Despite public support by Pentagon and U.S. Navy leaders for the short- take-off/vertical-landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), debates about the planned acquisition and...

According to: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a7269a0cd-0c18-4638-b904-2320885a22dd The P-3C is proving unexpectedly useful...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060202-114314-4356r.htm New pilots The Army long has relied on warrant officers to pilot attack and transport helicopters. Now the Navy is going to give it a try. Navy planes and helicopters are piloted by line officers who serve as pilots. Other officers...

I understand that the T-34C is now phased out of Naval service. I have also heard rumors that the Navy, in their infinite wisdom, is going to cut them all up, rather than sell them to willing civilian buyers. Anybody out there know the truth?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy air base in Pensacola, Fla., suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage from Hurricane Ivan, the Navy said Friday. Ninety percent of the buildings on base received "significant" damage. Naval Air Station Pensacola is where every Naval aviator gets...

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...

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...

Has the Phoenix ever been fired in battle?

Can ANYBODY give me the definitive answer on why each wing has both red and green nav lights? A reply from someone who has flown carrier based aircraft would be great. I have had a few replies, ranging from 'possibly' to just jokes (also...

VQ-2 Scheduled for Homeport Change From Commander, Naval Forces Europe/Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs ITALY (NNS) -- Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VQ) 2 will relocate from Rota, Spain, to Whidbey Island, Wash., effective Sept. 1. The relocation of VQ-2's six aircraft and 450...

Chimp Head? I'm dying over here. I remember one "fly off from hell" - one of the Turkeys was hard down the whole cruise. No wait, that was nearly ALL of them... At any rate, one of them had become a picked over shell, nearly picked clean by maint piranhas, with the assumption that it would be...

VFA-201 deployed on TR with CVW-8 during OIF...If there's any animosity towards SELRES/TARS in VFA-201 it must be because they "showed" up everyone else in the Wing. What a shame, look at the Air Force, they do it, and they have the Reserve and Guard. "Doug "Woody" and Erin Beal"...

I just listened to the EC121 recordings of Israeli helicopter pilots approaching the Liberty after the attack. (All in Hebrew of course). The pilot is asking whether the ship is dangerous and is been answered that its not known whether the ship is dangerous or not and that he should try to...