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An A-6E landing on the aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66), showing the split airbrakes on the tips of its left wing. The Grumman A-6 Intruder is a two-seat twin-engined monoplane, equipped to perform carrier-based attack missions regardless of prevailing weather or light conditions. [4]
"Lt. Cmdr. Dan David "Dewey" DeWispelaere, 32, a Navy pilot who flew more than 40 missions from the aircraft carrier Ranger in the Persian Gulf War, was killed Oct. 10 in the crash of his A-6E Intruder near Wenatchee, Wash. His navigator-bombardier, Lt. (j.g.) Grady Hackwith, was also killed.
On the return to carrier, Morg is fatally shot in the neck by an armed Vietnamese peasant. Landing on USS Independence with Morg dead, a disturbed Jake, covered in blood, walks into a debriefing with Commander Frank Camparelli and Executive Officer, Commander "Cowboy" Parker. Camparelli tells Jake to put Morgan's death behind him and to write a ...
The United States Navy Grumman F-14 Tomcat, BuNo 159623, NG-205, of US Navy Fighter Squadron 24 VF-24 was lost during a carrier landing mishap aboard USS Constellation while deployed in the Indian Ocean. The aircraft caught the #4 arresting cable, which was set for the wrong aircraft weight.
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Seven US Navy sailors were injured in the mishap aboard aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, the Navy said. Pilot forced to bail out of F-35 stealth jet after 'landing mishap' on US Navy aircraft ...
Seven sailors were injured on Monday after an F-35C warplane suffered a "landing mishap" on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
Flight of the Intruder is a novel written by Stephen Coonts in 1986, telling the stories of United States Navy aviators flying the A-6 Intruder – a two-man, all-weather, aircraft carrier-based strike aircraft on missions during the Vietnam War. The main character is Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton, a naval aviator who appears in a series of sequels.