Tag Archives: Aircraft Carrier

By Victor Chen,  Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Public Affairs Five score minus one year ago today (99 to be exact), the Navy completed calibrating the first carrier-based catapult on USS North Carolina (ACR-12), after flinging a Curtiss AB-3 flying boat into the sky. It wasn’t the first launch …

  by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eric Lockwood, Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division On March 6, 1822, a 12-gun schooner named Enterprise captured four pirate vessels in the Gulf of Mexico. The event is little known, not well documented, and it was one of her …

From Naval History and Heritage Command, Communication and Outreach Division The F-14 Tomcat has been replaced from the Navy’s inventory with the F/A-18 Hornet, yet it was 26 years ago today when a pair of Tomcats on the prowl played cat-and-mouse with a matching pair of Libyan MiG-23s. Increasingly aggressive …