#OTD 1955, the Martin P6M SeaMaster strategic bomber flying boat flew for the first time. The SeaMaster was intended to give the Navy a strategic nuclear strike aircraft superior to the B-52. The program was canceled in favor of the Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile.
U.S. Naval Institute Archive Photo of the Week: A Curtiss F9C-2 Sparrowhawk fighter, piloted by Lieutenant Harold B. Min Miller, flying over Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, in 1934. This plane was then assigned to USS Macon (ZRS-5).
#OTD 1943, K-74 became the only U.S. blimp lost to enemy action when it was shot down by the German submarine U-134 in the Straits of Florida. The crew was rescued except for one sailor who died after being attacked by a shark. U-134 was sunk a month later by the @RoyalAirForce.
“A fantastic companion for any aviation enthusiast interested in the history of USN strike aircraft from the inter-war to modern times.” —@MilAvHistory
US Navy Strike Aircraft, by Norman Friedman
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@flynavy would like to congratulate and welcome six selectees to the U.S. military’s oldest and most elite flight demonstration squadron, the @BlueAngels.
National ✈️ Museum ➡️ National ✈️ ➕🚀 Museum
On this day in 1966, "and Space" was added to our name through Public Law 89-509, officially making us the National Air and Space Museum.
The formal ground-breaking for the Langley Memorial Aeronautics Laboratory (now @NASA_Langley) happened #OTD in 1917. Construction over the next 3 years was by all accounts a nightmare thanks to marshy terrain, untrained workers, and the Spanish Flu pandemic. (46 workers died!)
OSHKOSH Monday Speaker
Gerry Asher - Aviation Artist - Warbird Restorer - Pilot
EAA “Fellowship of the Wing”
7 a.m. July 25, 2022
Fergus Chapel
(Next to Memorial Wall & KidVenture)
After failing to trim down in the vertical [I have an excuse!!!] the nose pitched beyond the vertical & I got a GLIDE CONE caution as we accelerated away from the field. So I did a 180 roll and flew inverted to fix the caution & drive the reentry point directly over MHV. Whew!
For the past 80 years, research in @NASA_Langley's Vertical Spin Tunnel has supported many industries, including commercial aviation & the development of nearly every U.S. military aircraft designed since WWII, completing more than 600 projects to date.
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