News & Events
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Video Thursday, 10.04.10
Posted: Nov 04, 2010Here are my top three videos this week, one serious and two for fun! Send me your top video and if I use it you become eligible for this month’s […]
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Curtiss-Navy racer sets World Speed Record, 1921
Posted: Nov 03, 2010On 03 November 1921, pilot Bert Acosta flying the Curtiss-Navy racer powered by a 400-h.p. Curtiss engine, won the Pulitzer Race at Omaha, Nebraska, with a world record speed of […]
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Second Yale Unit, 1917
Posted: Nov 02, 2010A group of Yale students volunteered to form a flying unit for the United States Navy in February 1917 and they enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as seamen […]
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Father of Naval Aviation Birthdate
Posted: Oct 31, 2010Today is the birthday of the naval officer who was able to foresee a power air arm of the United States Navy. William Adger Moffett was born in Charleston, South […]
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American aircraft carriers and the Suez Crisis 1956
Posted: Oct 29, 2010Whenever a crisis happens in the world, ever since World War II, our Presidents have probably asked as one of their first questions, “Where are our carriers?” On 29 October […]
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Video Thursday 10/28!
Posted: Oct 28, 2010Time for my top videos of the week! Hope you enjoy them, again send me links to your favorite videos and the best one I receive during the month of […]
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USS Akron Commissioned 1931
Posted: Oct 27, 2010USS Akron was commissioned at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 27 October 1931. She was 785 feet in length and weighed 242,356 pounds. The ZRS-4 was built in 1931 […]
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First landing on the Navy's first aircraft carrier!
Posted: Oct 26, 2010On 26 October 1922, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey de Chevalier, USN, flew his Aeromarine 39-B on to the flight deck of the United States Navy’s first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), […]
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Victory at Sea, 25 October 1812
Posted: Oct 25, 2010One hundred and ninety-eight years ago, the young United States Navy gained a victory at sea against the world’s most powerful Navy, when the USS President defeated the HMS Macedonian […]
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Centennial of Naval Aviation
Posted: Oct 21, 2010Next year, 2011, will mark the centennial of Naval Aviation in the United States Navy. It will be a year marked by many celebrations and remembrances across the nation of […]