Naval Aviation News - October 1993 - Fighting Lady Lives

COVERS — Front: Rick Mullen, Malibu, Calif., received honorable mention in the bimonthly ANA Photo Contest with this refueling shot of HMH-769 RH-53Ds and an HC-130 of the California Air National Guard's 129th ARS over Arizona.

Back: LCdr. T. R. Prochilo captured a Carrier Air Wing 3 fly-by of John F Kennedy (CV 67).

Naval Aviation News, Flagship Publication of Naval Aviation
Oldest U.S. Navy Periodical, Volume 75, No. 6, September-October 1993

Features

• Top Gun of the Pacific Fleet
• Iwo Jima Decommissioned
• 7th Ranger Decommissioned
• 1993 Sailors of the Year
• After OP-05 ... What Changed?
• Enlisted Aviation Series: Aviation Antisubmarine Warfare Operator
• Hank Caruso's Aerocatures Sketchbook: High Ener-G, High a - The Spirit of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School
• The Fighting Lady Lives - The National Memorial to Carrier Aviation
• Naval Aviation in WW II: Fleet Carrier Combat Operations, 1943 to 1944 (A Photo Essay)
• MCAS El Toro Command Museum: Preserving the History of Marine Corps Aviation

Departments

• Flight Line: ANA '93 Symposium
• Grampaw Pettibone
• Airscoop
• Naval Aircraft: The Amphibian Scouts, Part 1
• People - Planes - Places
• Professional Reading
• ANA Bimonthly Photo Competition
• Flight Bag

Publication Staff

RAdm. Riley D. Mixson
Director, Air Warfare

Published by the Naval Historical Center under the auspices of the Chief of Naval Operations

Dr. Dean C. Allard
Director of Naval History

Cdr. Mike Lipari
Director, Naval Aviation History and Publication Division

Staff

• Cdr. Russ Jowers, Editor
• Sandy Russell, Managing Editor
• Charles C. Cooney, Art Director
• Joan A. Frasher, Associate Editor
• JOCS(AW) Theresa L. Dunn, Associate Editor
• J01(SW) Eric S. Sesit, Assistant Editor

Associates

• Harold Andrews
  Technical Advisor
• Cdr. Peter Mersky, USNR
  Book Review Editor
• Capt. R. Rausa, USNR (Ret.)
  Contributing Editor
• LCdr. Richard R. Burgess
  Contributing Editor

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