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July 14, 2022

Super Hornet Blown From Carrier Deck

“…But The Sea Contains The Hottest Blood Of All, And The Wildest, The Most Urgent.”—D.H. Lawrence

An F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to the Carrier Air Wing aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman blew off the great ship’s flight-deck and into the Mediterranean Sea on Friday, 08 July. So says a statement subsequently released by the U.S Navy. The mishap occurred as the Truman—CVN-75 and the eighth of the U.S. Navy’s Nimitz class aircraft carriers—was conducting a replenishment-at-sea. Shortly after the successful completion of the provisioning operation, the ship was hit by what Stars and Stripes, the American military newspaper, called “an unexpected brief period of intense winds a

Goodbye, Tri-Blade. Hello, Pollock

For decades, the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) has served as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force. The congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit organization has saved a great many lives in its eighty-years, and quietly served as a conduit by which generations young people have proceeded to pilot certification and flying jobs. Nationwide, CAP is a major operator of single-engine general aviation aircraft. The agility and utility of such airplanes is well suited to the organization’s search and rescue and disaster relief missions.

ACE is the Place

Edwards Air Force Base is the sort of place Buzz Aldrin would call Magnificent Desolation. Throughout its 89-years, the facility has served as the backdrop for research and flight operations that have defined the course of human aeronautical endeavor. The base sits at the west-central boundary of Rogers Dry Lake, a 65-square-mile salt-pan in the Mojave desert, the ground of which is sufficiently hard and dry to serve as a landing surface for even the heaviest modern aircraft.