U.S. Navy Aircraft History

Much of this post was taken from Naval Fighter Number Eighty: Grumman F8F Bearcat , an excellent monograph on the Navy's last and arguab...

All this time, I had misidentified the jet engine under the F4U at Patuxent River in 1944 as the Westinghouse 9.5-inch engine instead of its...

One of the U.S. Navy's first airplanes was a swept-wing biplane with no horizontal tail. Burgess was a U.S. shipbuilding company that go...

In the summer of 1951 when this picture was taken by VF-51 squadron mate John Moore, Neil Armstrong was not yet 21 and had just been promote...

I'm not sure yet when this photo was taken but it is probably late 1955 or early 1956. The aircraft are all newly assigned to NATC for...

Once upon a time, NACA engineer Charles Zimmerman postulated that a very low-aspect-ratio wing would provide low-speed lift and short takeof...

When an aircraft carrier deploys, it departs with an air wing comprised of several specialized squadrons to provide a full offensiv...