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[/caption] Another Navy first, today eighty-one years ago a glider was dropped from the USS Los Angeles, ZR-3 (seen above). The idea of dropping a glider from an airship was the Chief of the Bureau of...
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Not content to wait for the next Japanese attack, Admiral Chester Nimitz sent two of his warrior admirals out to hit back less than two months after the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor. Task Force 8...
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Here is the full video story on our Veterans of the Fighting Lady exhibit created by Shell Royster and Steven Hyatt. Enjoy!
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[/caption] See some of our veterans as they were interviewed on Veterans Day... Click here for WCBD TV Two news story... Click here for WCSC TV Live Five news story... Click here for Chip's AM Moment...
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On 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 catapult was...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="502" caption="Retired Navy Commander Bob Coolbaugh pilots his replica Ely-Curtiss Pusher aircraft on board USS George H. W. Bush. Here he is on catapult...
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On 17 November 1918 an H-16 flying boat from Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, detected a radio signal via their British six-stage amplifier radio direction finder from a Virginia radio station...
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Old technology at work! Here is our old World War II battleship technology at work, notice the effects on the surface of the sea beneath the gun blasts! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-15O...
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With the advent of high-flying and high-speed aircraft, the United States Navy was faced with a new problem, which was ignored until Billy Mitchell's demonstration of air power in the sinking of the...
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Here is the "Lightning II" piloted by David "Doc" Nelson. The "Lightning II" departed Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base and achieved successful air refuels at a maximum load of 19,800...
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On 22 November 1917, a Tellier seaplane flown by a naval aviator, Ensign Kenneth R. Smith, was forced down at sea on his flight out of Naval Air Station LeCroisic at the mouth of the Loire River to...
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On 29 November 1910, Glenn H. Curtiss wrote to the Secretary of the Navy under President Taft, the Honorable George von Lengerke Meyer. In his letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Curtiss offered to...
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[/caption] On 30 November 1959, the Airship Training Group at Naval Air Station (NAS) Glynco, Georgia, was decommissioned, bringing an end to lighter-than-air training in the United States Navy. Click...
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Today sixty-nine years ago, the keel of the USS Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding, not far from the battle site of Yorktown, Virginia. The mighty Fighting Lady (nickname given by her crew...
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Welcome to Video Thursday! Have you ever wondered what it is like to pilot a Navy jet aboard a moving mass of steel at sea? Here's your chance, watch this S-3 Viking pilot below, see his methodical...
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On 03 December 1915, Naval Aviator #14 Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley set an American altitude record flying the Curtiss AH-14 to 11,975 feet over Pensacola, Florida. Saufley was a member of the first...
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Arriving at San Diego on 01 December 1950 from her first successful Korean combat cruise, the Valley Forge's crew were dreaming of being home by Christmas. Indeed, most of the armed forces in Korea...
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[/caption] Today two hundred and sixty-six Americans gathered on a cold, windy 07 December at Patriots Point to remember Pearl Harbor. The memorial program was put together and run by the local...
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Interestingly, the United States declared war on the same date that the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Because of the International Dateline, the Japanese attack came on 08 December in...
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It's the holiday season and for a little fun, if you hadn't seen this one before it is a classic bit of everything you see is not necessarily so in the air or on the ground... [youtube:http://www...