News & Events
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Happy birthday United States Marine Corps, Semper Fi!
Posted: Nov 10, 2010Thanks for protecting America! We wish you many more birthdays, Happy 235th year of Semper Fi!
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Preview to Veterans Day and "Veterans of the Fighting Lady" Portrait Exhibit
Posted: Nov 08, 2010Join us on 11 November to commemorate Veterans Day on the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. Our volunteer-veterans will be holding a “Meet and Greet” from 10 am to 2 […]
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Naval Research Laboratory and RADAR
Posted: Nov 05, 2010Eighty years ago on 05 November 1930, L. C. Young and L. A. Hyland of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detected an aircraft while conducting experiments in the directional effects […]
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Video Thursday, 10.04.10
Posted: Nov 04, 2010Here are my top three videos this week, one serious and two for fun! Send me your top video and if I use it you become eligible for this month’s […]
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Curtiss-Navy racer sets World Speed Record, 1921
Posted: Nov 03, 2010On 03 November 1921, pilot Bert Acosta flying the Curtiss-Navy racer powered by a 400-h.p. Curtiss engine, won the Pulitzer Race at Omaha, Nebraska, with a world record speed of […]
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Second Yale Unit, 1917
Posted: Nov 02, 2010A group of Yale students volunteered to form a flying unit for the United States Navy in February 1917 and they enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve as seamen […]
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Father of Naval Aviation Birthdate
Posted: Oct 31, 2010Today is the birthday of the naval officer who was able to foresee a power air arm of the United States Navy. William Adger Moffett was born in Charleston, South […]
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American aircraft carriers and the Suez Crisis 1956
Posted: Oct 29, 2010Whenever a crisis happens in the world, ever since World War II, our Presidents have probably asked as one of their first questions, “Where are our carriers?” On 29 October […]
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Video Thursday 10/28!
Posted: Oct 28, 2010Time for my top videos of the week! Hope you enjoy them, again send me links to your favorite videos and the best one I receive during the month of […]
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USS Akron Commissioned 1931
Posted: Oct 27, 2010USS Akron was commissioned at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 27 October 1931. She was 785 feet in length and weighed 242,356 pounds. The ZRS-4 was built in 1931 […]