U.S. Navy Aircraft History

The Douglas AD Skyraider proved hard to replace in the U.S. Navy. For decades, jets couldn't match its combination of size, endurance, a...

Although most airplanes now have a landing gear with a nose wheel, for many years after the Wright brothers' first flight almost all had...

Before the advent of computer-aided bombing, it wasn't easy to hit a target with a bomb even if the intended target was not maneuvering....

No matter how hard an author tries, errors sometimes go unnoticed. New information often becomes available after a book goes to press. Here ...

I thought I had posted this before but I can't find it. 151970 Stricken Dec 1969.  Stored at the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Dahl...

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  Hancock Deploying, 2 August 1969  William T. Larkins Steve Govus was on the flight deck of Hancock during its 1969/1970 deploymen...