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Former crewmembers of the USS Yorktown began arriving today for their 62nd Reunion! The first reunion was 15 April 1948 (5th anniversary of CV-10's commissioning) in New York City at Ruppert's Brewery...
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Eighty 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 of radio. This...
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[/caption] Join 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 pm on USS Yorktown. Our...
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Thanks for protecting America! We wish you many more birthdays, Happy 235th year of Semper Fi!
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Here is the full video story on our Veterans of the Fighting Lady exhibit created by Shell Royster and Steven Hyatt. Enjoy!
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[/caption] See some of our veterans as they were interviewed on Veterans Day... Click here for WCBD TV Two news story... Click here for WCSC TV Live Five news story... Click here for Chip's AM Moment...
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On 15 November 1934, the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics established plans to install hydraulic, flush-deck catapults on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Type H, Mark I catapult was...
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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="502" caption="Retired Navy Commander Bob Coolbaugh pilots his replica Ely-Curtiss Pusher aircraft on board USS George H. W. Bush. Here he is on catapult...
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On 17 November 1918 an H-16 flying boat from Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, detected a radio signal via their British six-stage amplifier radio direction finder from a Virginia radio station...
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Old technology at work! Here is our old World War II battleship technology at work, notice the effects on the surface of the sea beneath the gun blasts! [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-15O...
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With the advent of high-flying and high-speed aircraft, the United States Navy was faced with a new problem, which was ignored until Billy Mitchell's demonstration of air power in the sinking of the...
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Here is the "Lightning II" piloted by David "Doc" Nelson. The "Lightning II" departed Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base and achieved successful air refuels at a maximum load of 19,800...
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On 22 November 1917, a Tellier seaplane flown by a naval aviator, Ensign Kenneth R. Smith, was forced down at sea on his flight out of Naval Air Station LeCroisic at the mouth of the Loire River to...
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On 29 November 1910, Glenn H. Curtiss wrote to the Secretary of the Navy under President Taft, the Honorable George von Lengerke Meyer. In his letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Curtiss offered to...
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[/caption] On 30 November 1959, the Airship Training Group at Naval Air Station (NAS) Glynco, Georgia, was decommissioned, bringing an end to lighter-than-air training in the United States Navy. Click...
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Today sixty-nine years ago, the keel of the USS Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding, not far from the battle site of Yorktown, Virginia. The mighty Fighting Lady (nickname given by her crew...
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Welcome to Video Thursday! Have you ever wondered what it is like to pilot a Navy jet aboard a moving mass of steel at sea? Here's your chance, watch this S-3 Viking pilot below, see his methodical...
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On 03 December 1915, Naval Aviator #14 Lieutenant Richard C. Saufley set an American altitude record flying the Curtiss AH-14 to 11,975 feet over Pensacola, Florida. Saufley was a member of the first...
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Arriving at San Diego on 01 December 1950 from her first successful Korean combat cruise, the Valley Forge's crew were dreaming of being home by Christmas. Indeed, most of the armed forces in Korea...