Under condition of anonymity, a senior-level official with the Navy has informed TACAIRNET that the service intends on bringing the … Continue reading Navy to Explore Resurrecting the F-14 Tomcat to Replace the F-35
Aircraft designed to operate from the decks of seagoing aircraft carriers need to have extremely resilient landing gear, allowing them … Continue reading Dropping a Fully-Loaded Super Hornet 20 Feet
Ordinarily, fixed wing aircraft require the use of a tailhook and arresting three/four arresting cables to safely come to a … Continue reading The Royal Navy Plans on Landing Their F-35Bs at Sea, Soviet-Style
The C-130 has been the workhorse of cargo aircraft for the the Marines and the Air Force since it entered … Continue reading Look, Ma!! No Hook!!!
The Naval History & Heritage Command put together this awesome and simple graphic that demonstrates the evolutionary history of American … Continue reading A Quick Visual Primer to Every American Aircraft Carrier Class of the Past 97 Years
Mid-September 1974 would see yet another WESTPAC combat deployment for the already-battle hardened USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), the first nuclear-powered aircraft … Continue reading Tomcat’s First Ride
Earlier this week, we shared a picture from Lockheed Martin’s publicity page on our Facebook page. Each and every one … Continue reading “Be quick, be quiet, and be on time.”
On Friday the 21st, 1956, one of Grumman’s in-house test pilots, Thomas W. Attridge Jr. climed into a borrowed Navy … Continue reading Tigers, Dives and 20 mm Cannons
Here’s a riddle for you: It starts like a Skyhawk, turns into a Phantom and finishes off like a Starship. … Continue reading XFV-12
This is a post from a while ago that somehow never made it onto the website for our FoldingWing Friday theme, which is … Continue reading 303B
The Tactical Air Network 