U.S. Navy Aircraft History

By Tommy H. Thomason

Saturday, August 25, 2018

Was the Navy's F-111 Really That Bad?

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It was with some trepidation that I awaited the subject article by Robert Bernier in the September 2018 issue of Air&Space Smithsoni...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Grumman TS-2A on Fire

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Every once in a while, a picture of a Grumman TS-2A (S2F-1T) with the port-engine propeller feathered and the engine nacelle engulfed in fla...
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Friday, July 6, 2018

United States Marine Corps Aircraft Since 1913

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The latest aircraft reference book from E.R. Johnson is United States Marine Corps Aircraft Since 1913, published by McFarland. The brea...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Strike from the Sea

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Specialty Press has formally notified me that they have zero stock and it will not be reprinted. It got pretty good reviews on Amazon. If...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Naval Aviation Centennial Newsletters

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

North American FJ-1 Carrier Operations

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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 ...
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Sunday, April 1, 2018

Kneeled Deck Parking

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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...
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In 1956, at age 12, I lived on NAS Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands. Always enamored with airplanes, I imprinted on the Cougars, Banshees, and Skyraiders then being deployed. Not able to be a Naval Aviator because I was nearsighted, I instead became an aeronautical engineer and general aviation pilot. Now retired, I write books and monographs on U.S. Navy aircraft.
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