Recently added articles from Naval Aviation News:

GRAMPAW PETTIBONE

Jan 01, 2008; Anonymous ... How Low Can you Go? After doing ceremonial flyovers over the weekend, a section of Hornets took off from a civilian airfield for the short flight home. The flight lead elected to launch VFR and proceeded to a VR route for some section low level work. Weamer and NOTAMS were ...

HC-4 BLACK STALLIONS DEACTIVATED

Jan 01, 2008; Moss, Rob; Young, Evan T ... Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 was deactivated on 30 September 2007 after 24 years of service. Cdr. Robert Buckingham was HC-4's last CO. A ceremony held in the squadron's honor on 28 September at NAS Norfolk, Va., was attended by many former and current officers and sailors, ...

PROFESSIONAL READING

Jan 01, 2008; Mersky, Peter B ... PROFESSIONAL READING Holloway III, Admiral James L., USN (Ret.). Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam and the Soviet Confrontation. U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD 21402. 2007. 479 pp. 111. $34.95. This deceptively long memoir is one of the ...

Awards

Jan 01, 2008; Hickmon, Johnie ... In October 2007 the following aviation commands received first place recognition in the Commander Naval Region, Middle Atlantic Community Service of the Year awards: Environmental Stewardship (Sea Large)-George Washington (CVN 73) Project Good Neighbor (Sea Large)-Wasp (LHD ...

Milestones

Jan 01, 2008; Hickmon, Johnie ... On 8 September 2007 Kitty Hawk (CV 63) logged its 400,000th arrested landing when an E/A-6B Prowler, above right, piloted by CVW-5 CO Capt. Michael McNellis, landed on board. This also marked Capt. McNellis' 1,000th ...

Scan Pattern

Jan 01, 2008; Hickmon, Johnie ... The Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training announced 31 October 2007 that all Aviation Electrician's Mate (AE), Aviation Structural Mechanic (AM), Aviation Electronic's Technician (AT), and Aviation Machinist's Mate (AM) "A" school training will be relocated to Naval Air Training Center ...

On the Move

Jan 01, 2008; Hickmon, Johnie ... On 20 September 2007 Peleliu (LHA 5), with embarked DESRON 31, returned to her homeport of NS San Diego, Calif., after a four-month humanitarian deployment to Southeast Asia and WESTPAC. On 21 September 2007 Kitty Hawk (CV 63), with CVW-5 embarked, returned to her homeport in Yokosuka, ...

Outreach

Jan 01, 2008; Hickmon, Johnie ... On 4 October 2007 Nimitz (CVN 68) and HSC-23, through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, fulfilled a terminally ill child's wish to visit a carrier and fly a helicopter. After touring the ship, six-year-old Michael Sweetman boarded an MH-60S ...