U.S. Navy Aircraft History

In early 1953, Lockheed proposed its Model L-242 in response to the Navy's requests for proposals meeting its Outline Specification 130....

Once upon a time, I posted a brief summary of the history of Landing Signal Officers here: http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2012/11/waving-them...

This is a work in progress... The carrier plane-guard role dates from the very first operation of airplanes from ships. The destroyer Roe ...

"England and America are two countries divided by a common language." Before the U.S. Navy took a close look at postwar Royal Navy...

If you're familiar with both U.S. Navy and Royal Navy airplane programs from the early 1960s, you may have wondered why the former devel...

Great googly moogly... For a summary description of this Lockheed P2V's record distance flight, see http://thanlont.blogspot.com/2...

U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tomas Compian I was recently asked "How hard is it to land on an aircraft carrie...