U.S. Navy Aircraft History

While looking for something else, I discovered that the Centennial of Naval Aviation newsletters issued beginning in 2009 to publicize the y...

In the process of doing some research for another author on the North American FJ-1 Fury, I had a senior moment that I documented with this ...

Kneeling - it seemed like a good idea at the time. The U.S. Navy's first carrier-based jet, the McDonnell F2D-1/F2H-1 Phantom, had conve...

Another opportunity to set the internet record straight: what drove the F-111's empty weight? Some assume that it was the Navy's c...

This is not the Grumman F12F: It is the Grumman Design 118, proposed to the Navy in December 1955. The Navy rejected it because they di...

I'm embarrassed to say that I neglected to cap this story off when she did back on 24 January 2014. The settlement, according to a Reute...

One of the interesting features I noticed early on as I grew better acquainted with the history and development of U.S. Navy carrier-bas...