This 15 minute video, produced by Grumman Aerospace in the 70s, details the different requirements of Navy planes from land-based planes.
For one thing, I did not know that that once the tail hook catches, the entire fuselage flexes – think of the 1000s of landings a plane makes in its life, and the engineering that goes into this …
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It is long at 90 plus minutes………….but the good stuff starts at about 36 minutes or so in.
This is really cool.
USS Enterprise makes final foreign port Visit at Naples, Italy.
I vaguely remember when she was commissioned on the one TV station we got in Malta, MT fifty one years ago…….I was seven years old.
Filed under Good Ships, Good Stuff, History, Navy, Sea Stories
The photo was at the Commander, 7th Fleet site. Fond Memories………..possibly. It has been so long since I participated in such an evolution.
It ain’t all shoot em from the front and catch em on the back folks. There is the routine, the mundane, the dirty stuff that needs to be done. Those flight deck markings need to be visible and the crap that leaks out of airplanes builds up on the flight deck and makes things interesting. It also hurts like hell when one is blown down the deck a ways on one’s posterior.(Personal Experience at the tender age of 19!)
The link is to the post I put up at Old Retired Petty Officer, just for grins.
Capture of U-505 by USS Guadalcanal CVE-60
Today is also the 68th anniversary of Guadalcanal’s capture of U-505. Captain Daniel Gallery was CO of CVE-60 and Commander of Task Group 21.12.
Away boarders was called away on a United States Man of War for the first time since the war of 1812 as well as the first capture on the High Seas then as well.
I read a lot of Captain Gallery’s books in the mid to late seventies.
The link is to The Wikipedia entry on USS Guadalcanal CVE-60.
Rusty Mothball Fleet: Not your normal Ship Pr0n
I posted this one at Old Retired Petty Officer.
Three of the ships take up about five years and two months of my career and in reality, my life. Experiences on deployment on these ships are part of what defines me to this day.
I thought these would be good pics for today – They made me think of Lex 
Aviation Nation 2009 - Legacy Flight - F/A-18F Super Hornet and F4F Wildcat
I’ve been a fan of Heritage Flights and Legacy Flights since they started. Historic aircraft seem to be found on static display only in museums with increasing frequency these days with few exceptions. While we can still see many of them fly, I think it’s important to show the latest generations the aircraft that made history and to have them fly in formation with the current machines which keep freedom alive. There’s a huge contrast in the speed, the size, and the sound of those aircraft from bygone days compared with modern jets and I don’t know that kids these days could grasp nearly as well just how far we’ve come without seeing such displays. Of course, it’s wonderful for aviation addicts like us to see them as well
Aviation Nation 2009 - Legacy Flight - F/A-18F Super Hornet and F4F Wildcat
Yes, I know the Hornet is a newer version than the jets Lex flew and that the Wildcat is in French colors, but I thought it was nice to see anyway and I wasn’t about to complain about minor details 
FLY NAVY and have a great Friday, everyone 
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