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Posts Tagged ‘Naval Aircraft Factory’
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Navy Transition From Wooden To Aluminum Aircraft 1927
Posted: May 23, 2011Despite aluminum being declared superior to wood by NACA in 1920, only 5% of all aircraft were constructed of all metal by 1930. Aluminum proved a very difficult material for […]
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Naval Aviation Sets Seaplane Record 1928
Posted: May 03, 2011Launching from Philadelphia at the Naval Aircraft Factory, a PN-12 seaplane (P for mission – Patrol, N for manufacturer – Naval Aircraft Factory) piloted by LT’s Arthur Gavin and Zeus […]
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First Operational Navy Airships 1918
Posted: Apr 27, 2011Four years after United States Navy aircraft first conducted combat flights, naval aviators in naval airships over France also saw combat protecting convoys. A naval air station was established in […]
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Birth of the Yellow Peril! or Ground Loops For All My Friends!
Posted: Feb 09, 2011Photo of XN-3N1 (San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives) The XN-3N1 was ordered from the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia on 09 February 1935. This aircraft is the prototype […]
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Hydraulic catapults enter Navy service 1934
Posted: Nov 15, 2010On 15 November 1934, the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics established plans to install hydraulic, flush-deck catapults on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Type H, Mark I […]