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Representatives advocate for aging population

RALEIGH — On March 22, representatives of the Senior Tar Heel Legislature (STHL) visited the North Carolina State Legislature to advocate for the state s aging population. STHL delegates and alternates ....

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Meet the Bat: Introducing the World's First Smart Weapon


Following numerous setbacks and disappointments, the Bat was proven under combat conditions.
On May 27, 1945, U.S. Naval Reserve Lieutenant Leo Kennedy was patrolling from his station at Yonton Field in Okinawa. These were the closing months of the war in the Pacific, and Kennedy’s mission was to destroy any enemy shipping he could find. Hanging from the outboard stations of his Consolidated PB4Y Privateer aircraft were two very secret, odd-looking, wooden glide bombs.
Kennedy’s squadron had been equipped that April with the new weapon, and so far the results had been mixed. This new glide weapon, carrying a 1,000-pound bomb in its belly, had shown it could certainly do damage, but it had not exactly hit what its operators had targeted. ....

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U.S. Navy Fighters Once Battled Soviet MiGs Over North Korea


Soviet pilots harried U.N. forces using MiG-15 jets based across the Yalu River in China.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Navy and Marines knew their fighters were outclassed by Soviet MiGs.
After World War II, the U.S. Navy scrambled to field its own jet fighters but designing a warplane that could fly dramatically faster while still landing on a short carrier deck proved a challenge. The Navy’s first operational jet, the underpowered FH Phantom, was retired after only two years of service.
Naval aircraft manufacture Grumman received funding in 1946 to develop a four-turbojet G-75 prototype based on the twin piston engine F7F Tigercat. However, the concept proved so unpromising the firm used creative accounting to use the funds for a single-engine project called the G-79. This XF9F prototype first flew in November 1947 from the production facility in Bethpage, New York. ....

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