24 November 2015

The Most Decorated Flight Crew in Vietnam: The Story of Cherry Six

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The most northerly air base in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War was Da Nang Air Base which was located only 85 miles south of the demil...
19 November 2015

C.E. Woolman and the Founding of Delta Air Lines

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C.E. Woolman (Minnesota Public Radio) Collett Everman Woolman was born in Indiana in 1889 and was raised in the academic environment of...
14 November 2015

Refining Anti-Submarine Warfare: The Grumman AF Guardian

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Grumman XTB3F Guardian prototype (San Diego Air and Space Museum) By 1944, the United States was already laying down plans for the inva...
08 November 2015

Arthur Young Gets Bell into the Helicopter Business

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Lawrence Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft (Airport Journals.com) In his book The Bell Helicopter Textron Story , David Brown says of Larr...
03 November 2015

Regulus: The US Navy's First Operational Nuclear Missile

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Regulus missile on an aircraft carrier deck. Following the defeat of Germany in May 1945, the US Navy began experimentation with the Ge...
29 October 2015

The Douglas F6D Missileer

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The F6D Missileer's resemblance to the F3D Skyknight is apparent In 1957 the US Navy issued a specification for carrier-based fleet...
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24 October 2015

Fox Two! The Birth of the AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile

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An early Sidewinder test round- note the early constant chord fins At the end of the Second World War, the Navy had been focusing its w...
19 October 2015

Mike Grimm, Father of the Night Stalkers

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Michael Grimm, Father of the Night Stalkers Conventional wisdom in aviation history points to the tragic debacle at Desert One in Iran ...
14 October 2015

The Spyplane Codenamed "Pie Face": The Birth of the Big Safari Program

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The Big Safari emblem (Big Safari Association) At the end of the Second World War, Germany was divided into four occupation zones admin...