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  • Drop-in JP-5 jet fuel replacement ‘invisible to user’ By Andrea Watters The Secretary of the Navy’s energy vision came to fruition in September when the EA-18G “Green Growler” completed flight […]

    Navy Tests 100-percent Advanced Biofuel

    Drop-in JP-5 jet fuel replacement ‘invisible to user’ By Andrea Watters The Secretary of the Navy’s energy vision came to fruition in September when the EA-18G “Green Growler” completed flight […]

  • Additive Manufacturing Promises to Boost Naval Aviation Readiness by Jeff Newman At a time when the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are stretching aircraft beyond their intended service lives to […]

    Printing the Future

    Additive Manufacturing Promises to Boost Naval Aviation Readiness by Jeff Newman At a time when the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are stretching aircraft beyond their intended service lives to […]

  • Part II By Cmdr. Peter B. Mersky, USNR (Ret.) Author’s Note: Since the Navy and the Marine Corps have always been linked, it should come as no surprise that the […]

    U.S. Naval Air Force Reserve: A Century of Service

    Part II By Cmdr. Peter B. Mersky, USNR (Ret.) Author’s Note: Since the Navy and the Marine Corps have always been linked, it should come as no surprise that the […]

  • By Jeff Newman More than 200 sonar targets—some of which may represent parts of aircraft or debris fields—were found in August as underwater archaeologists continued their search for U.S. Navy […]

    Search for Sunken PAX Aircraft Continues in Chesapeake Bay

    By Jeff Newman More than 200 sonar targets—some of which may represent parts of aircraft or debris fields—were found in August as underwater archaeologists continued their search for U.S. Navy […]

  •   by Jeff Newman With a name like “unmanned aerial vehicles,” it can be hard to remember that UAVs, at least for the time being, still depend on human aircrews […]

    Unmanned? Not Exactly

      by Jeff Newman With a name like “unmanned aerial vehicles,” it can be hard to remember that UAVs, at least for the time being, still depend on human aircrews […]

  • Gramps from Yesteryear July-August 2006 Illustration by Ted Wilbur Hitting Hornets Two F/A-18s along with another Hornet were going against a section of F-14 Tomcats on an air combat training […]

    Grampaw Pettibone

    Gramps from Yesteryear July-August 2006 Illustration by Ted Wilbur Hitting Hornets Two F/A-18s along with another Hornet were going against a section of F-14 Tomcats on an air combat training […]

  • Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120 “Greyhawks” Established: July 6, 1948 Based: Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia Current Commanding Officer: Cmdr. Evan L. Morrison Mission: E-2 Mission: Airborne Early […]

    Squadron Spotlight

    Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 120 “Greyhawks” Established: July 6, 1948 Based: Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia Current Commanding Officer: Cmdr. Evan L. Morrison Mission: E-2 Mission: Airborne Early […]

  • Future-focused: Next Generation Air Dominance Rear Adm. DeWolfe H. Miller III Chief of Naval Operations Director, Air Warfare (OPNAV N98) This summer, I had the privilege to follow Rear Adm. […]

    Flightline

    Future-focused: Next Generation Air Dominance Rear Adm. DeWolfe H. Miller III Chief of Naval Operations Director, Air Warfare (OPNAV N98) This summer, I had the privilege to follow Rear Adm. […]

  • Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46 “Grandmasters” Established: April 7, 1988 Based: Naval Air Station Mayport, Florida Current Commanding Officer: Cmdr. Chris A. Richard Mission: Surface Warfare (ASUW), Anti-Submarine Warfare […]

    Squadron Spotlight

    Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 46 “Grandmasters” Established: April 7, 1988 Based: Naval Air Station Mayport, Florida Current Commanding Officer: Cmdr. Chris A. Richard Mission: Surface Warfare (ASUW), Anti-Submarine Warfare […]