The Hook - Where are the Carriers? - Fall 2000
VOLUME 28 NUMBER 3 FALL 2000
©2000, all rights reserved
ISSN: 0736-9220
On The Cover
Section of VFA-122 Flying Eagle Super Hornets cruise over central California on a training mission. In the lead is an F/A-18E with an F/A-18F on the wing. Photo by Neville Dawson.
Table of Contents : Air Plan
- BRIEF
- In Harm's Way: Naval Aviation at the Dawn of the 21st Century
VADM John NathmCOmmander,
Commander, NaFOrcesr Forces Pacific Fleet - Where are the Carriers?
- From the Chairman: The View From Here
RADM Thomas F. Brown III, USN(Ret) - Naval Aviation in Color: The F6F Hellcat
photo essay by Robert L. Lawson
- In Harm's Way: Naval Aviation at the Dawn of the 21st Century
- FROM THE CATWALK
- From the Catwalk
conducted by CAPT Hook - The Further Adventures of Youthly Puresome: A Near Thing
CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret), artwork by Carl Snow - Where Are They Now? Whitey Feightner
LCDR Rick Morgan, USN(Ret) - Check Flight in "01' Shaky"
LCDR Rick Morgan, USN(Ret)
- From the Catwalk
- LAUNCH
- A 50-Year Tribute: Naval Aviation In Korea
Barrett Tillman - Up To Speed With the Super Hornet FRS
Jeff Hall, photos by Neville Dawson
- A 50-Year Tribute: Naval Aviation In Korea
- AT MARSHAL
- Command Changes
- Air Wing and Squadron Reports
- CVW-5 Shows Off at Wings 2000
photo essay by PH3 Michael A. Damron, USN - Carrier Air Wing Composition as of 1 October 2000
- MANNING THE SPARE
- RESPOT
- They Came Back: A Report on Tailhook 2000
Barrett Tillman and LCDR Rick Morgan, USN(Ret)
- They Came Back: A Report on Tailhook 2000
- IN REVIEW
- WAVEOFFS & BOLTERS
- What is It?
Steve Millikin and Hal Andrews - Patch Page: World War II VC Squadrons
- What is It?
Managing Staff Members
- EDITOR : CAPT Steve Millikin, USN(Ret)
- MANAGING EDITOR : CDR Jan C. Jacobs, USNR(Ret)
- ASSOCIATE EDITORS
- CAPT Wynn F. Foster, USN(Ret)
- Barrett Tillman
- Carmelle Carter
- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
- Steven P. Albright
- Hal Andrews
- Margaret Bone
- CDR Doug Siegfried, USN(Ret)
- Mike Weeks
- CDR Jack D. Woodul, USNR(Ret)
- CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Ted Carlson
- Rick Llinares
- Jose M. Ramos
- CDR Chris Buhlmann, USNR
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