U.S. Navy Aircraft History

Early in the F4H Phantom design, it was determined that more lift was needed to achieve the approach air speed required. The solution was th...

In 1928, catapults on the flight deck were considered obstructions by some but hangar deck catapults were of interest. ...

Faint praise perhaps, but The Bridges at Toko-Ri has to be in the top three. It was based on a slim novel by James Michener, who was embedd...

That is, if they are flying a fighter with a low wing-loading and a high thrust to weight like the F4D Skyray and they want to go back to ho...

Most of the Navy's jet fighters through the 1950s to a greater or lesser degree were general purpose, in that they could also drop bombs...

In the early 1950s, BuAer was not of one mind with respect to the specification for a carrier-based day fighter. The class desk officer (equ...

"On 1 October 1940, the XF4U-1 made a flight from Stratford to Hartford with an average ground speed of 405 mph, the first U.S. fighte...