Here’s What You Need to Remember: While it’s intended mission as a nuclear strategic bomber didn’t last long, the A-3 spawned an alphabet-soup of variants whose contributions to the Navy proved far ...

Few aircraft in naval aviation history have been as adaptable and long-lived as the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior. Designed originally as a US Navy strategic bomber, the Skywarrior, also affectionately ...

Before hose-and-reel refueling took hold, the Navy tried a system of rigid tubing. This did not end well. US Navy In the mid-1950s, a naval officer in the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C., ...