U.S. Navy Aircraft History

In A Designation Story ( http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2011/10/designation-story.html ), I discussed why the WF-2 was a -2 and not a -1. In...

This post is the result of a question posed to me by Angelo Romano, which was both surprising and pleasing. Normally it's me asking Ange...

A doomed VT-8 crew taking off on a one-way mission to attack the Japanese carriers off Midway on 4 June 1942. Once upon a time, a friend...

They got to see the world but there was hard work along the way when your job was arming the airplanes: Here, deckhands are loading a torp...

Carroll LeFon, aka Neptunus Lex, died two months ago trying to land a Kfir in below-minimum weather conditions at the only airfield he co...

The Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics sponsored a Joint Fighter Conference that was held at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland on October 16-23, 19...

There was much for a pilot to learn in the transition from propeller-driven airplanes to jets and much to like about the new propulsion tech...