Naval Aviation News articles from November 2008

Naval Aviation News archives from November 2008

Bad air day.(GRAMPAW PETTIBONE)
November 1, 2008... Following a combat mission, a Hornet pilot set up for a night Case TIT recovery. After commencing the approach, the pilot began to feel as if he were not keeping up with the aircraft and the approach. As he closed on the ship, he began to...

Hot on the bottom.(Cramps From Yesteryear)(Column)
November 1, 2008... For a good many years I've been preaching that there are just three things you can do when an airplane catches on fire in flight--put the fire out, jump, or land immediately. Here's a case where the pilot chose the last alternative and did a...

Growler gets busy.(AIRSCOOP)
November 1, 2008... At NAWS China Lake. Calif., on 23 July, the E/A-18G Growler conducted its first live firing of ordnance. VX-9 pilots Lt. Jeff Millar and Lt. Elizabeth Somerville fired an AIM-12 (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, below right, to score a...

Kearsarge and Nassau provide hurricane reliff.
November 1, 2008... The deadly 2008 Atlantic hurricane season reached its peak in September when Hurricane Ike caused considerable damage from Haiti to Texas. Along Ike's path of destruction, the Navy dispatched Nassau (LHA 4) and Kearsarge (LHD 3) to provide...

VX-9 tests the next generation of Hueys and Super Cobras.
November 1, 2008... If it's newer, faster, or carries a more powerful punch, chances are the Navy and Marine Corps pilots of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 9 have flown it. The Vampires at NAWS China Lake, Calif., conduct operational testing and evaluation...

ONE final cruise for Kitty Hawk.
November 1, 2008... Kitty Hawk (CV 63) steamed through the Strait of Juan de Fuea toward Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wash., on 2 September marking the final underway period for the Navy's last remaining conventional powered carrier. Kitty Hawk is...

VMGR-352: service at 1,500 feet.
November 1, 2008... Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron (VMGR) 352, Detachment A, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (Fwd.) continually carry out aerial cargo delivery missions during their deployment to get supplies to units operating in remote areas...

Professional reading.(Midway Dauntless Victory: Fresh Perspectives on America's Seminal Naval Victory of WWII)(Book review)
November 1, 2008... Smith, Peter C. Midway Dauntless Victory: Fresh Perspectives on America's Seminal Naval Victory of WWII. Pen and Sword Books, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, UK. Distributed by Casemate Publishing, Drexel Hill, PA 19026. 2008. 384 pp., illustrated....

People planes places.
November 1, 2008... Awards Naval Aviation News earned First Place in the 2007 CHINFO Merit Awards competition in the Magazine Format Publication category for the second consecutive year. On 16 July Tarawa (LHA 1) received the Ship's Store Retail and...

MAG-42 deactivated.(Brief article)
November 1, 2008... Marine Air Group (MAG) 42 deactivated at NAS Atlanta, Ga., on 21 June and redistributed its squadron aircraft throughout the Marine Corps. Two F/A-18 Hornets belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 142 were transferred to MAG 41 at...

Flightbag.(Calendar)
November 1, 2008... Decommissioning Tarawa (LHA 1), 3-4 December, San Diego, Calif. Events for former crewmembers include a golf tournament, crew reunion dinner along with decommissioning tours and ceremony. POC Lt. Miles Hicks, 619-556-3970,...

100 years of Naval Aviation approaches.
November 1, 2008... On 8 May 2011 Capt. Washington Irving Chambers, the Navy's officer in charge of aviation, prepared a requisition to purchase the Navy's first aircraft from Glenn H. Curtiss. Since then, as CNO Adm. Gary Roughead explained, "Naval Aviation has...