U.S. Navy Aircraft History

This is Saratoga (CV-3) in the early 1930s with a partial deckload of Boeing fighters, Curtiss or Vought scout bombers, and Martin torpedo ...

This is Hornet deployed in the Pacific sometime between January and July 1957. The spot configuration appears to be after the last recover...

It's actually an AU-1, a close-air support variant of the F4U-5 developed specifically for the Marines Corps since AD Skyraiders were...

My editor and I have completed the review of the layout proof: all 225+ pages, 300+ pictures/illustrations, and 80,000+ words. As with Naval...

Turbofan engines, which add thrust by compressing more air than will go through the burners and turbine, provided more efficient thrust by i...

One of the half-truths in the Navy's campaign to smear the F-111B was its poor performance in carrier trials accomplished aboard Coral ...

The area rule for transonic drag minimization was postulated and demonstrated by NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb. The rule was that the total...