U.S. Navy Aircraft History

In the mid-1950s, several Essex-class carriers were repurposed from attack to antisubmarine warfare and redesignated from CVA to CVS. Althou...

While in the process of preparing a set of notes and illustrations about the F4U-4 configuration changes, I was somewhat surprised to find t...

The amount of organization information displayed on U.S. Navy carrier aircraft underwent some interesting changes between the Korean War and...

In memory:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-navy-jet-suit-20140125,0,4137919.story#axzz2ryLV5DCe For my previous posts on the tortuous path of t...

Anybody can find their way nowadays with GPS, even back to a carrier far at sea, never having caught sight of land. It took considerably mor...

I've mentioned composite squadrons and detachments before. See http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2012/12/hellcats-on-cves.html for a summary...