Tailhook Topics Drafts

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 The Naval Ordnance Laboratory Test Facility at Fort Lauderdale, Florida was assigned responsibility for qualification of airborne delivery ...

 The first 16 F7U-3s were powered by nonafterburning Allison J35 engines because the Westinghouse afterburning J46 engines were not yet flig...

 FS 12197, International Orange, has been used on U.S. Navy aircraft for high-visibility markings. It can be confused with other colors also...

 From Grumman Archives:

 1 July 2023: It turns out that there is the same drafting error on two different Grumman drawings with respect to the location of the inboa...

The F2H Banshee canopy was actuated by a rack and pinion mechanism. The rack was mounted fore and aft on the canopy, attached at its aft e...