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Videos

STS-135 Centennial of Naval Aviation Message :: STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson and Pilot Doug Hurley record a special message to commemorate the Centennial of Naval Aviation. Seapower Naval Aviation Snapshot :: A quick video of Naval Aviation and the ways it supports the CNO’s Maritime Strategy. Naval Aviation Centennial :: A short retrospective of US Naval aviation history.  

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Aeromarine 39-B Airplane :: Approaching the flight deck of USS Langley (CV-1) during landing practice, 19 October 1922. USS Langley Launching a DT-2 :: Docked at the carrier pier at Naval Air Station, North Island, San Diego, California, with a Douglas DT-2 airplane taking off from her flight deck. This photo may have been taken during catapult tests in 1925. USS Saratoga Flight Deck :: Aircraft on the flight deck, preparing for launching, circa 1929-30. Planes in the foreground are Boeing F3B-1 fighters. In the background are fifteen Martin T4M-1 torpedo planes, of Torpedo Squadron Two (VT-2B). USS Essex :: Underway at 1615 hrs. during May 1943, in position 37 05'N, 74 15'E, as photographed from a blimp from squadron ZP-14.Among the aircraft parked on her flight deck are 24 SBD scout bombers (parked aft), about 11 F6F fighters (parked in after part of the midships area) and about 18 TBF/TBM torpedo planes (parked amidships). Gilberts Operation - Hellcat :: A Grumman F6F-3 “Hellcat” fighter makes condensation rings as it awaits the take-off flag aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10), 20 November 1943. The plane is from Fighting Squadron Five (VF-5).Yorktown was then hitting targets in the Marshall Islands to cover the landings in the Gilberts. President Nixon - Apollo :: President Richard M. Nixon talks with the Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., on the hangar deck of USS Hornet (CVS-12), in the Pacific Ocean, 24 July 1969. The astronauts are inside the mobile quarantine station that temporarily housed them after their return from the Moon. USS Midway CVA-41 :: A Flight Deck Director signals an F-4 “Phantom II” fighter into position on the starboard catapult, in preparation for launching, 5 August 1970. F4F-4 Wildcat :: Grumman F4F-4 “Wildcat” fighter, of Fighting Squadron Six (VF-6). Has its six .50 caliber machine guns tested on the flight deck of USS Enterprise (CV-6), 10 April 1942. Curtiss SOC-1 :: Curtiss SOC-1 scout-observation aircraft. In flight, 2 July 1939. USS Macon :: USS Macon (ZRS-5) flying over New York Harbor, circa Summer 1933. The southern end of Manhattan Island is visible in the lower left center.