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Watch: The Tragic Forrestal Fire Analyzed and Hard Lessons Learned
The Ship Was Heavily Damaged and Air Wing 17 Was Decimated July 29th 1967 dawned like many others aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA-59) on Yankee Station in the…
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This NAVAR Safety Film Still Serves As A Great Retrospective Of Cold War Airpower
The film “Aircraft Accident Prevention- Ground Accidents” was produced during the early 1960s and shot primarily at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville in Florida. The Navy created the film in…
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The Red Rippers’ Last Tomcat Cruise
When US Navy Fighter Squadron ELEVEN (VF-11) Red Rippers returned from their 2004 deployment with Carrier Air Wing SEVEN (CVW-7) aboard the carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73), an era came…
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