U.S. Navy Aircraft History

The F2H-1 Banshee fuselage was not shorter than the -2. Only the three XF2H prototypes had the shorter fuselage. The stretch was made in be...

This is an amazing collection of the proposals for the competition won by Douglas with what became the A3D Skywarrior. As far as I know, at ...

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Navy and the Air Force were looking for an air-to-air weapon more effective than guns in bringing do...

If Vought hadn't made the F7U-1 control system so complicated, underestimated the empty weight by so much, or realized that the visibili...

According to George Spangenberg, which is very meaningful coming from him since he was 1) the long-time director of BuAer's proposal eva...

In 1955, Grumman and North American were at a disadvantage relative to Vought in the competition to furnish the Navy's next day fighter....

Once upon a time, specifically January 1958 aboard Saratoga . The picture was taken by Aviation Week's Pete Bulban. Two F8U-1 Crusaders ...