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发帖数: 6973 | 1 The Apr 10, 2011 issue of Aviation Week had a cover story Naval Aviation 100
Years.
http://web02.aviationweek.com/aw/event
Type2.do?eventName=naval_aviation_100
Many articles are not availabel online for free.
(1) Panel 2 is Timeline.
The triangle in the top, pointing upward, moves toward later/more recent
events.
One milestone in the Timeline is: "April 1948--Navy Secretary John Y Mason
declares US naval aviation was born on May 8, 1911."
An article of this issue in print (but not available online for non-
subscribers) never explained why the secretary selected My 8, rahter than
Jan 18, 1911.
(a) Naval Aviation of the world started in US.
(i) Eugene Burton Ely
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Burton_Ely
(1886-1911; On Nov 14, 1910, Ely took off in a Curtiss pusher from from a
temporary wooden platform erected over the bow of the light cruiser USS
Birmingham at Hampton Roads, Virginia and landed on a beach; On Oct 19, 1911
, he died when the airplane he piloted crashed)
Quote: "Two months later, on January 18, 1911, Ely landed his [same] Curtiss
pusher airplane on a platform on the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania
anchored in San Francisco Bay. Ely flew from the Tanforan airfield in San
Bruno, California and landed on the Pennsylvania, which was the first
successful shipboard landing of an aircraft. This flight was also the first
ever using a tailhook system
(ii) Why was the seaplane called Curtiss pusher? Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930)
was both Ely's employeer and an angineer who designed the biplane, and its
engine.
* Curtiss Model D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_Model_D
(or frequently, "the Curtiss pusher"; Almost all Model Ds were constructed
with a pusher configuration, where the propeller is behind the pilot)
(b) Compare
(i) Centennial of Naval Aviation: 100 Years of Achievement; 1911-2011; 100
Years of Progress. US Navy, undated.
http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/centennial/Pages/welcome.aspx
(ii) 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation. Hosted by defense industry.
http://www.navalaviation100.org/
(2) In the bottom of this web page, panel 3, is the video section. When your
cursor superimposes on the image (without clicking it), a title and
synopsis will appear--those of an article IN PRINT.
(B) One article in that issue that IS available for free is:
Bill Sweetman and Richard D. Fisher, Jr, AirSea Battle Concept Is Focused On
China.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id
=news/awst/2011/04/04/AW_04_04_2011_p62-299099.xml&channel=defense
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says it has the “potential to do for
America’s military deterrent power . . . what AirLand Battle did” in the
20th century.
Note:
(a) The report stated, "In January, it was announced that the Air Force
Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint Stars) aircraft had
completed a demonstration of the Network Enabled Weapon architecture, in
which moving ships were tracked by Joint Stars and hit with AGM-154C glide
bombs released from Boeing F/A-18E/Fs."
(i) It alluded to
Photo Release -- Northrop Grumman's Joint STARS is Key Enabler in Success of
U.S. Navy/Air Force Joint Surface Warfare Network-Enabled Weapon Joint
Capability Technology Demonstration. Northrop Grumman, Jan 17, 2011.
http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press
/pages/news_releases.html?d=211170
("in support of the U.S. Navy Joint Surface Warfare (JSuW) Joint Capability
Technology Demonstration (JCTD) to test its Network-Enabled Weapon (NEW)
architecture")
(ii) Prior to that, Joint Stars was mentioned as tracking and attacking land |
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