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by Tommy H. Thomason

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Lockheed P-80A Carrier Trials Mea Culpa

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Well this is embarrassing. Once upon a time, I wrote about the Lockheed P-80A carrier trial aboard FDR with this illustration. I posted...
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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Grumman F9F Nose Cone Variations

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Roy Stafford called my attention to an F9F nose cone change that I hadn't noticed. As often happens, the subsequent research generated e...
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Friday, February 5, 2016

Douglas A3D-2 (A-3B) Skywarrior Canopy

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Celestial navigation is the means of determining one's position on the surface of the earth solely by reference to the position of the s...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Grumman A-6B Iron Hand

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29 January 2016: Still refining and correcting... Thanks to Mick Roth and Rick Morgan, who generously provided most of the information and...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Photo Panthers: F9F-2P vs. F9F-5P

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To start with, the F9F-2 and F9F-5 were similar but different in detail. The -5 had an eight-inch plug in the forward fuselage ahead of the ...
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In 1956, at age 12, I lived on NAS Sangley Point in the Philippine Islands. Always enamored with airplanes, I imprinted on the Cougars, Banshees, and Skyraiders then being deployed. Not able to be a Naval Aviator because I was nearsighted, I instead became an aeronautical engineer and general aviation pilot. Now retired, I write books and monographs on U.S. Navy aircraft.
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