U.S. Navy Aircraft History

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  Every once in a while, someone wonders why rocket-assisted takeoff is called JATO (Jet Assisted Takeoff) instead. According to Captain Rob...

 Every once in a while on the internet, with respect to U.S. Navy swept-wing fighters before the introduction of the F8U Crusader and the F4...

 I had intended to post this here but inadvertently created it in my modeling blog. See http://tailspintopics.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-brief-h...

Once upon a time, before angled decks, it was important to differentiate the barricade from the barriers, which are no longer needed on angl...

 In November 1944, the recently commissioned Shangri-La was used to conduct carrier evaluations of three aircraft, a Grumman F7F-1 Tigercat...

  This is a long needed update of Naval Fighters 13 by the same author published in 1984. "Greatly expanded" doesn't do it jus...