Great NAVAIR Find!

[Shay]

This may be old news to some of you but this neat stuff to me. While doing some research I came across online back issues of Naval Aviation News in .pdf format. A lot of great articles and pictures of aircraft, squadrons and events that are now a part of history, but written as they were happening. Was neat to read about the Phantom II and Vigilanti coming on strength.

Here is the link to them: http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/newbackissues.htm

I plan to spend many a moment reading through them. BTW my Uncle is mentioned in the March 1964 issue as trapping the USS Hancock's 63,000th landing with the VF-211.

Enjoy.

Shay
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Semper Fortis

[Larry Kraus]

Shay,

Thanks for posting this.I've already downloaded the full year of Naval Aviation News for 1951 and will start on the rest.Grampaw Pettibone is always worth reading and a lot of his comments still apply today.If you run across another deal like this,please post it....

LK

[N3Njeff]

Shay,

Thanks for posting this.I've already downloaded the full year of Naval Aviation News for 1951 and will start on the rest.Grampaw Pettibone is always worth reading and a lot of his comments still apply today.If you run across another deal like this,please post it....

LK

Larry, if you run into any N3N stuff.............would love to see!!! ESP the ones that were at Annapolis until 1959!

[Greg_in_Ohio]

Shay,

If you run across another deal like this,please post it....

LK

While not specifically NAVAIR related, there is a lot of archival aviation related material in the Flight archives, the start page link follows, they are all searchable PDF documents going all the way back to 1909.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/index.html