The “revolt of the admirals” The separation of the Army Air Force from the Army and the establishment of an American Department of Defense structure shortly after WW II set up a series of serious conflicts that took decades to resolve and probably caused unnecessary casualties, especially in the Korean War. The conflict triggered a […]

Naval aviation in Korea. by Fred Lane Paper presented at the Aviation Historical Society of Australia, Sydney, 7 July 2004. To understand naval aviation in the Korean War, it is necessary to understand the context. Before the Americans dropped the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs, a highly successful Pacific War had been waged between 1941 […]

The F-35…and beyond James Fallows, in an excellent article in the Atlantic Monthly (see Web page http://www. theatlantic.com.issues/2002/06/fallows.htm) described the political and commercial dogfights between lead companies Boeing and Lockheed Martin for contracts to build 6000-odd Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft, worth probably US$200 billion over 25 years. The Lockheed Martin team version (Lockheed Martin […]

Birdstrike This article was a distinguished entry in the 2001 Naval Officers Club Literary Prize competition. Written and compiled from LEUT Tristram’s personal account of the incident to the author.© Copyright 2001 This material must not be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the author. by John Winslow The cast of this […]