Sunday, February 22, 2026

Well, That Was Colorful II

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 From Scooter! Revised Edition:  In February 1958, VA-83 had just begun a deployment aboard Essex, the first for the A4D-2, when one of the ...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

F-86 Sabre by Duncan Curtis

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  Newly published by Crécy in England, to say it is comprehensive would be an understatement: There are 384 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages, at least ...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

In Defense of the F7U-3 Cutlass

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 Uninformed speculation repeated often enough becomes fact. An example is the horrific ramp strike of F7U-3 BuNo 129595 piloted by LCDR Jay ...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Well, There's Your Problem

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 I scanned this photograph at the National Archives 14 years ago: The caption:  This 6 April 1955 photo was from the same qualification peri...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025

F8U-3: NASA Pilot Dogfights with F4H-1 Prototypes

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  Every once in a while, someone writes that pilots of the NASA Langley F8U-3s bounced F4H-1s being tested at Patuxent River and beat them b...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Naval Fighters Number 122: Loening Amphibian

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  The latest monograph from Steve Ginter, it covers Grover Loening's designs from the M-2 through the XS2L-1. As usual, copious pictures...
Saturday, July 26, 2025

U.S. Naval Air Superiority Revised and Updated

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    The previous edition took the story up to 1962 and the F4H Phantom. this one provides corrections and additions to the original text and...
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