Up, Up and Away
By Captain Charles H. Brown, USN (Ret.)
The Navy has a long history of experimenting with (and rejecting) vertical/short take-off and landing fighters. With the advent of Joint Strike Fighter (hovering at left is Boeing’s demonstrator), it is time for the Navy to give this innovation in flight a real look.
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Captain Brown, a 1952 graduate of the Naval Academy, completed a 23-year career as a naval aviator. He has flown the TAV-8 and is the author of Dark Sky, Black Sea (Naval Institute Press, 1999).
DARK SKY, BLACK SEA
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