Tailhook Topics

I've added some more information and illustrations on the nose flaps and the asymmetric fin to the AD Skyraider Modeling Notes here: htt...

Thanks to the Gerald Balzer collection as channeled by Mark Nankivil, I now have much better pictures of Mk 7 and Mk 8 nuclear weapons loade...

The only notable differences that I know of between the Grumman F9F-2 and -3 is that 1) the -2 was powered by a P&W J42 engine and th...

Late last year, I found more F-111B photographs as well as bits and pieces of documentation in the files at the Grumman History Center. I...

I'm now pretty sure what the F-111B inflight refueling probe installation looked like, both originally and as planned for the production...

Corogard*—also spelled Corrogard, Coroguard, Coro-gard, etc—was required by the Navy on the forward facing edges of inlets, wings, and empen...

David Collier provided me with a correction to a caption in Air Superiority. On page 49, there was a picture of an early F6U with an NC-1. ...