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The year 1986 was an important one for the Navy.Naval Aviation celebrated its 75th Anniversary. The Maritime Strategy, designed to defeat the Soviet Navy, was in vogue. A 600-ship navy [...]

From the post-WWII Banshees and Panthers to the Hornets of today, naval aircraft have steadily improved: engines, navigation, hydraulic, electrical, control and weapons systems have gradually modernized. Some improvements are [...]

The article discusses the challenges facing airmen from the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Marines during the military campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War. It describes the constraints placed upon U.S. pilots by the military and the administration of U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, operations over North Vietnam, and defenses employed by the North Vietnamese such as surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and antiaircraft artillery (AAA).

In this article the author discusses the future of aviation in the U.S. Navy. He states that technological innovations would lead the naval aviation in the U.S. to play important role in the country's and prove its relevance in international and national levels. He discusses the scope of large deck carriers, rotary-wing aircrafts, land-based naval aviation, amphibious ships, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned carrier-launched surveillance-and-strike (UCLASS) vehicles in the Navy.

Focuses on the military training undergone by United States naval aviators during the Cold War in preparation for a possible nuclear warfare. Secrecy involved in the recruitment and training of military personnel for the AD Skyraider squadron; Practice bombs used during the training; Study of the B43 weapon; Carriers loaded with nuclear weapons.

The passage of radioactively tagged tracers, injected at elevated pressures, through the lymph node-venous communication coincides with the increased pressures of injection and subsequent nodal palpation in dogs. Passage of iodinated I 125 serum albumen (ISA) indicates that direct lymph node-venous communications are present, whereas passage of nucleated erythrocytes requires a communication structure the size of a capillary or larger.Experimental observations and lymph node morphology are consistent with the concept of a mixing chamber with a dual pressure-related exit. Standardization of recovered sample volumes indicates the profiles of ISA recovery are not volume dependent. Experimentally elevated pressures of injection appear to mimic abnormal "downstream" lymphatic obstructions or local nodal pressure increases caused by regional tumor infiltration, digital nodal manipulation, or both.