U.S. Navy Aircraft History

 Ensign Raymond Maxwell Hite, Jr was killed on 18 May 1961 in the crash of the first Sageburner attempt to set the record for “speed...

Finally (it's been a work-in-progress for a long time). It's currently being printed and should be on Steve Ginter's website ...

Operation Iron Hand was a belated endeavor to deal proactively with Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites during the Vietnam War. Although cons...

Mark Frankel and I have written a book on the development and operational history of U. S. Air Force and Navy jet trainers. It will be ...

Okay - it's a bogus designation, based on the Navy practice of designating a research aircraft with its identifier for the manufacturer ...

Mark Nankivil passed along the following from Jack Abercrombie: While watching the Banshee at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVPlD2rNfc...

Except for a few very early biplanes, for many years airplanes had tail wheels, not nose wheels, even though the latter made landings less l...