U-2 Operations
12/04/2012
12/04/2012: Video showing U-2 cockpit and landing and takeoff operations. With the new version of Rover, the U-2 can operate as a high-flying WIFI. Credit: 9th Reconnaissance Wing:10/8/12
X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Arrives on Board the USS Harry S. Truman
12/04/2012
12/04/2012: Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman assist with the unload of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator. The USS Harry S. Truman is the first aircraft carrier to host test operations for an unmanned aircraft. The navy plans to conduct X-47B carrier deck handling tests…
Coast Guard Cutter Offloads $2 Million Worth of Marijuana at Port Canaveral
12/02/2012
12/2/2012: The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence offloaded 2,245 pounds of marijuana, with a wholesale value of approximately $2 million, at Coast Guard Station Port Canaveral, Sunday. The crews of the Coast Guard Cutters Confidence and Dauntless intercepted a 30-foot vessel suspected of smuggling narcotics Aug. 17, south…
The F-35 and High Angle of Attack Flight Testing
11/19/2012
2012-11-19 According to a Lockheed Martin Press Release: An F-35A Lightning II conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) aircraft rapidly expanded its high angle of attack (AOA) test envelope to its 50 degree limit in only four flights during recent flight testing here. F-35A test aircraft are limited to AOAs of…
USMC Flight Operations At Sea
11/05/2012
11/05/2012: USS Iwo Jima, US 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility (Sept. 10, 2012) – MV-22B Ospreys, AV-8B Harriers, UH-1N Hueys and AH-1W Cobras with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (Reinforced), 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct flight operations aboard the USS Iwo Jima, Sept. 10, 2012. The 24th MEU is deployed…
Building the USS America: Factory Methods Shape Possible Uptick in Production
10/31/2012
2012-10-31 The USN-USMC team needs more carrier-enabled decks. Large deck carriers can be built in only a quite long period and are built in dry docks, which are large and expensive to build. The USS America can be built by factory methods and around 70% put together before it goes…
Sandy Strikes; The Coast Guard Responds
10/30/2012
2012-10-30 As the mega-storm struck the United States, the USCG as usual in such situations got busy. The Coast Guard rescued 14 people from life rafts in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, and two people remain missing. The first MH-60 Jayhawk crew…
The F-35 and Weapons Certification
10/18/2012
Weapons certification is the next step to moving the F-35 along to initial operational capability. The standing up of the first F-35 B squadron at Yuma Air Station in November will see the process of building a capable F-35 force begin. Weapons certification is an important step as well. In…