Naval Aviation News - June 1995 - Test Pilot School

Front Cover, Naval Aviation News, May-June 1995. More than half of the major aircraft types assigned to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in its 50-year history are shown in this Aerocaturesim "fly-by" by Hank Caruso. GGA Image ID # 1a034e96fe

Cover of Naval Aviation News, May-June 1995, USNTPS 1945-1995 - 50 Years of Pushing the Envelope. Artist: Hank Caruso. GGA Image ID # 1a03c16494

Aircraft depicted are: 1 PBY-6A, 2 FM-2, 3 F4U-4, 4 SH-34G, 5 F7F-3, 6 F9F-5, 7 T-1A, 8 S-2A, 9 UH-1E, 10 OV-1A, 11 TF-8A, 12 F4D-1, 13 C-54Q, 14 U-6A, 15 AD-5N, 16 CH-46E, 17 T-39D, 18 T-28B, 19 TA-4F, 20 TA-7C, 21 OH-6A, 22 T-2C, 23 NU-1B, 24 UH-60, 25 T-38, 26 X-26A, 27 F/A-18B, 28 AH-1G and 29 P-3. GGA Image ID # 1a035557f4

Naval Aviation News, Flagship Publication of Naval Aviation
Oldest U.S. Navy Periodical, Volume 77, No. 4, May—June 1995

Features

• U.S. Naval Test Pilot School—50 Years of Pushing the Envelope
• NAS Sigonella: Hub of the Med
• Plane Captains . . . Takin' Care of Business
• Hank Caruso's Aerocatures Sketchbook— USNTPS 50th Anniversary
• TAMPS—Windows on the Future
• Naval Aviation in WW II
• Technical Developments

Departments

• Flight Line
• Grampaw Pettibone
• Airscoop
• Naval Aircraft: FJ
• ANA Photo Competition
• People-Planes-Places
• Professional Reading
• Flight Bag and Change of Command

Publication Staff

RAdm. Brent M. Bennitt
Director, Air Warfare

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

Capt. William T. Vance
Acting Director. Naval Historical Center

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

Staff

• Cdr. Russ Jowers, Editor
• Sandy Russell, Managing Editor
• Charles C. Cooney, Art Director
• Wendy Karppi, Associate Editor
• J02 Jerry Knaak, Assistant Editor
• J02 E. Blake Towler, Assistant Editor

Naval Aviation News (USPS 323-310; ISSN 0028-1417) is published bimonthly for the Chief of Naval Operations by the Naval Historical Center. Editorial offices are located in Bldg. 157-1 Washington Navy Yard, 901 M Street, SE. Washington, DC 20374-5059.

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