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	NAV AIR \|\| Naval History
		Naval aviation at this point was focused on seaplanes operating from the water; seaplanes taking off from–but not landing on ships; and lighter-than-air in the form of free balloons, kite balloons, and dirigibles.
		Naval aviation during the war was largely limited to seaplanes operating from land bases on the coast.
		Aircraft flying from shore would patrol within their range limitations escorting convoys and signaling destroyers when a submarine was sighted.
	www.sitelab.com /navair/History/ww1_02.html (735 words)

	Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst - Lakehurst, NJ
		Navy Lakehurst is responsible for the catapults that launch the aircraft; the landing aids that guide them back to the ship; the arresting gear that recovers them on the deck; and all of the support equipment to move, service, and maintain aircraft.
		The Navy Department, because aircraft manufacturers were too busy building airplanes for the Army, decided to build and operate the only aircraft factory ever to be completely owned and operated by the U.S. Government.
		Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, authorized the establishment of the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadelphia, PA on July 27, 1917: ground was broken on August 10, 1917, and less than eight months later the first airplane, an H-16 Flying Boat, flew off to war.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/lakehurst.htm (2595 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - Consolidated PBY Catalina
		The PBY was jocularly described as the slowest combat aircraft of the war.
		Aircraft built by Boeing were known as the PB2B, those built by the Naval Aircraft Factory as the PBN, and those built by Vickers in Canada as the PBV.
		These aircraft were fitted with special retarding bomb racks, to make the bombs fall vertical, instead of travelling horizontal with the speed of the aircraft.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/catalina.htm (1249 words)

	Naval Aircraft Factory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Naval Aircraft Factory (NAF) was established by the United States Navy in 1918 at Philadelphia in order to assist in solving the problem of aircraft supply which faced the Navy Department upon the entry of the U.S. into World War I.
		The Navy Department concluded that it was necessary to build a Navy-owned aircraft factory in order to assure a part of its aircraft supply, to obtain cost data for the Department’s guidance in its dealings with private manufacturers and to have under its own control a factory capable of producing experimental designs.
		The existence of the Naval Aircraft Factory was controversial at times as it put a federally-funded industrial activity in direct competition with civilian industry, and this was one of the reasons it was disestablished.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naval_Aircraft_Factory (488 words)

	Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
		The 816 N3N-3s that NAF built differed slightly from theN3N-1 with a redesigned vertical tail and a single strut landing gear.
		The aircraft could climb at 274 meters (900 feet) per minute and cruise at 161 kph (100 mph).
		That same year the Naval Academy retired the thirty-six remaining N3N-3s, which at that time were the last biplanes in U.S. military service.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/aero/aircraft/NAF_N3N.htm (954 words)

	Howeth: Chapter XL (1963)
		In a report to the Chief of Naval Operations, on 18 April 1941, the Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics advised that progress in the program was satisfactory, and that radar was being developed to replace television as a guidance system in order to allow operations under all conditions of visibility.
		It was imperative that these special expendable assault aircraft be developed in such a manner that they could be manufactured in quantities by industries not connected with the aircraft industry, because Admiral Towers was emphatic in his decision that the overburdened industry not be further burdened with a weapon unproven in combat.
		Tests conducted at the Naval Aircraft Factory with 3-centimeter radar, installed in a dome under the fuselage of a utility plane, permitting a full sweep and making it possible to control several drones and keep track of a target at the same time, were described.
	earlyradiohistory.us /1963hw40.htm (9004 words)

	Dispatch Archive
		The Naval Aircraft Factory, where the West Houston Wing's N3N was constructed, was established at League Island, South Philadelphia in 1917.
		This was the only aircraft factory ever owned by the U.S. government and for several years was known to manufacture the majority of the aircraft used by the Navy in its growing air arm.
		The Naval Aircraft Factory had a total of 3,600 employees during WWI and 12,000 during WWII.
	rwebs.net /dispatch/output.asp?ArticleID=35 (758 words)

	US Navy and US Marine Corps BuNos--First Series (A6000 to 9999)
		A6011/6020 Naval Aircraft Factory VE-7SF A6021/6030 Lewis & Vought VE-7-SF A6031 Douglas DT-1 c/n 101.
		A6034/6048 Naval Aircraft Factory PT-1 A6049/6054 Numbers reserved for Austrian government seaplanes which were shipped to USA in 1920 but not put into flying condition.
		A6878 Naval Aircraft Factory PN-8 A6879/6880 Loening OL-1 A6881 Boeing PB-1 Later converted to PB-2 by Naval Aircraft Factory A6882/6883 Boeing OB-1 Contract cancelled A6884/6893 Boeing FB-1 C/n 738/747 A6894/6895 Boeing FB-2 C/n 748/749 A6896 Boeing FB-4 C/n 751 A6897 Boeing FB-3 C/n 750 A6898/6927 Boeing O2B-1 C/n 619/648.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher/firstseries2.html (3895 words)

	Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
		In 1917, the Naval Aircraft Factory was established on the island.
		The Naval Aircraft Factory was redesignated the Naval Air Material Center in 1943, and became the Naval Air Engineering Center in 1963.
		Forrestal arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in September 1992 for her scheduled 14-month complex overhaul, but the overhaul was discontinued in March 1993 when the Forrestal was designated for decommissioning.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/philadelphia_nsy.htm (2031 words)

	NAS Grosse Ile Aircraft
		Even though it looks similar to the Kaydet, the N3N Primary Trainer built at the Navy aircraft factory was not as good an aircraft.
		At the end of World War II the majority of these aircraft were made surplus.
		One exception was a small number were used at the Naval Academy for seaplane training.
	nasgi.org /n3n3.htm (185 words)

	Yellow Peril
		In l935 the Navy placed an order with the Naval Aircraft Factory for 996 N3N biplanes constructed from recycled aluminum recovered from surplus material used in the ZN airship series.
		Testing and initial delivery of l75 aircraft to NAS Pensacola occurred in l936 at a cost of $25,000 per copy.
		The N3N incorporated many unique design features, including all-metal structure construction, a single integral top wing, a fuel tank forward of the front cockpit, and allowance for the entire port side of the aircraft to be opened for maintenance by way of six removable panels.
	members.aol.com /pinkynorm/public/yellowp.html (299 words)

	Warbird Alley: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
		Built by the Naval Air Factory, a Navy-run manufacturing complex, it was produced to replace the Consolidated NY-2s and -3s operated in the 1920s.
		The prototype, the NAF XNN-1 was flown in August of 1935.
		The US Naval Academy kept some N3N floatplanes after the war, but the rest were sold as surplus.
	www.warbirdalley.com /n3n.htm (293 words)

	History: Naval aircraft up to the F10F
		When the factory got the job they were faced with a problem of how to produce the SON within the price of the SOC, to prove perhaps that Curtiss had or had not been cheating us all these years.
		The aircraft factory just sent off a purchase order to Curtiss, "Please send me 44 steel tube fuselages." Curtiss squealed like a stuck pig but eventually they had to produce them, otherwise they were proving that they had mispriced spares for a great number of years.
		Actually the Naval Aircraft Factory served a very useful purpose as a manpower pool for the Bureau, and did a worthwhile job of training people like myself, that had no experience whatsoever, in getting ready to come down to Washington to help in the management of the naval aviation program.
	www.georgespangenberg.com /history1.htm (22257 words)

	Naval Aircraft Factory PBN Nomad Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While Consolidated employees worked to produce the PBY-5, their counterparts at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia worked to improve it.
		During 1940 NAF engineers developed several worthwhile hydrodynamic and aerodynamic modifications for the plane, but these couldn't be incorporated without stopping Consolidated's production lines and slowing much-needed deliveries of the current model.
		The NAF version, designated PBN-1 and named "Nomad," featured a longer hull - 64 feet 8 inches - a sharper bow, a 20 percent taper step amidships, and a shallow breaker step just forward of the tail.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /usplanes/aircraft/pbnnomad.htm (341 words)

	The US Navy
		Chevalier, Naval Aviator #7, died Nov. 14 in the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Va., of injuries suffered in a plane crash two days earlier at Lochaven, near Norfolk.
		On the morning of the 26th, while it was still dark, she launched a strike group of 69 aircraft which arrived over the target undetected shortly after dawn and completed the theoretical destruction of the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel locks without opposition.
		All carrier aircraft, based on these tests, were equipped with brakes and wheel type tail skids.
	www.navy.mil /navydata/navy_legacy.asp?id=1 (1311 words)

	TDR Variants by Tom Conte (Scratchbuilt 1/72) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Naval Aircraft Factory’s TDN assault drone was the first purpose built aircraft of its type.
		A TDN was the first aircraft to be remotely flown off of an aircraft carrier during exercises conducted on Lake Michigan in the summer of 1943.
		Due to other commitments in modifying and producing aircraft, the NAF past along the task of building drones to other manufactures.
	www.features02.kitparade.com /tdrtc_1.htm (330 words)

	Brown-Shoe Navy: U.S. Naval Aviation
		During the years between the wars, naval aviation became an integral part of the U.S. Fleet -- a subordinated part, but a part nonetheless.
		With the improving performance of planes, so did improve the standing of the carrier force and the naval aviation part of the fleet in general, until in 1941, the Pearl Harbor attack left the clear impression that the the battleship had been superceeded.
		This section is devoted to the aircraft that made the carriers weapons; the men who piloted and crewed them; and the squadrons which men and machines formed.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/aviation (116 words)

	MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM - N.A.F. N3N "Yellow Peril" Virtual Tour
		Built at the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, the N3N was configured both as a land plane and a seaplane.
		The front of the aircraft back to the firewall in the front cockpit and the vertical stabilizer were metal covered and the rest of the aircraft was fabric covered.
		The name originated from the fact that all naval trainers had been painted orange-yellow since 1917 as well as from its use in Naval Aviation Reserve bases where prospective Aviation Cadets received their first training.
	www.maam.org /aircraft/n3n.html (618 words)

	Bi-Plane Adventures, Inc - Vintage Bi-Plane Rides over Atlanta
		At that time, the Navy was contracted to manufacture a percentage of its own aircraft, and the N3N-3's were built from spare dirigible (blimp) parts to make use of surplus materials.
		In the hands of new naval cadets, these aircraft lived a rough life teaching the basics and challenges of airmanship.
		This particular aircraft served as a trainer in Pensacola, FL and Glenview, IL until 1945.
	www.biplaneride.com /aircraft.php (392 words)

	Spring 2005 — What is It? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Naval Aircraft factory produced a single XTN-1 (BuNo A-7027) and Douglas was given a contract for three T2D-1s.
		The aircraft were virtually identical in appearance but for the fact that the pilot’s cockpit in the XTN-1 was located forward of the engines, and in the Douglas design it was further aft, between the engines.
		Partly for this reason and partly because the Navy grew concerned at the large size of the T2D, the aircraft was withdrawn from carrier use and reassigned to Pearl Harbor-based squadrons.
	www.tailhook.org /Sp05WII.htm (636 words)

	History of NADC/NAWC, Warminster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		July 27, 1917--Construction of the Naval Aircraft Factory at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, was authorized for the purposes of constructing aircraft, undertaking aeronautical developments and providing aircraft construction cost data.
		August 10, 1917--Ground was broken for the Naval Aircraft Factory at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
		JANUARY 1 1957--The Naval Air Experimental Station, Philadelphia, one of the four subcommands grouped together to form the Naval Air Material Center in 1943, was disestablished and consolidated with the NAMC.
	www.crompton.com /wa3dsp/k3nal/nawcdocs.html (1224 words)

	f4u-2
		Thirty two conversions were made at the Naval Aircraft Factory and two were made in the field at Rio Island, Kwajalein Atoll.
		They were known as "washing machine charlies" for they were old and noisy aircraft that would not normally be used in combat.
		The night fighters did not destroy a vast number of Japanese aircraft but so effective was their mission that the Japanese soon ceased night bombing raids altogether.
	www.vought.com /heritage/products/html/f4u-2.html (296 words)

	Naval Aircraft Factory N3N
		NAF N3N-3, V196; Original caption: "Note the canvas instrument flying hood attached to the rear seat.
		The Navy developed the N3N as a training aircraft in 1934.
		Manufactured by the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, the N3N was a biplane built with a fabric-covered, bolted steel-tube fuselage.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/WEBAIRCRAFT/AC_NAF_N3N.html (237 words)

	Hydraulic Servo Units
		The "tailor-made" model which the Aircraft Factory had been producing, one at a time, was the work of experiments and had never been adapted for production methods.
		Elizabethport's first effort was, therefore, to redesign the unit for production and on September 3, 1942, the chief engineer at the Naval Aircraft Factory approved the Elizabethport design after thorough tests on the bench and in airplanes.
		Singer's associations with the Aviation Supply Office, the Navy Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia and the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington have been on a friendly and cooperative basis and it is gratifying to learn that the Servo Units produced at Elizabethport have been regarded by the Navy as highly satisfactory.
	home.cfl.rr.com /featherweight/servos.htm (910 words)

	U. S. Naval Aircraft Designations 1939-45
		By the way, the letter V was already in use to indicate heavier-than-air aircraft and squadrons and O was is use for Observation aircraft, so I assume U was the next unused letter in the name Vought.
		In late 1942, General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division started manufacturing the Grumman F4F-4 design, but since it was being built by Eastern, the Navy gave it the new designation FM-1, with M being the code for General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division.
		Marine aircraft also shared the Navy's designations, and if you look closely at the DFW Wing assigned Stinson L-5 Sentinel, you will see that it is painted and marked as a Marine OY-1.
	rwebs.net /avhistory/acdesig/usnavy.htm (1714 words)

	Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1934 the Naval Aircraft Factory was given the task of manufacturing a new primary trainer designed by the U.S. Navy.
		The N3N was used extensively in U.S. Navy primary flying training schools throughout WWII, with the majority becoming surplus immediately when the war ended.
		One exception to this was the small number of the seaplane version which were retained for primary training at the U.S. Naval Academy.
	www.daveswarbirds.com /usplanes/aircraft/n3n.htm (227 words)

	US Navy/US Marine Corps Attack Aircraft Designations
		In 1923, the Navy introduced an aircraft designation system in which its aircraft were designated according to manufacturer, type, and model sequence by a sequence of letters and numbers.
		There were several different type designations that were used for attack aircraft throughout the years: BF for bomber-fighter (1934-1937), BT for bomber-torpedo (1942-1945), SB for scout-bomber (1934-1946), TB for torpedo bomber (1935-1946), plus A for attack (1946-1962).
		Several of the Navy attack aircraft in the 1946-1962 attack series were redesignated with numbers in the new system.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher4/usnavyattackdesig.html (586 words)

	Aeronautics and Astronautics Chronology, 1940-1944
		April 19: Naval Aircraft Factory initiated development of a Glomb (glider bomb), to be towed long distances by powered aircraft and released over target and guided by radio control and target-viewing television.
		June 27: Naval Aircraft Factory was directed to participate in development of high-altitude pressure flying suits, thus joining Army which had sponsored earlier work.
		Capable of accommodating full-scale supersonic aircraft engines, it was the first of its size to have a flexible-wall test section, which allowed variations from Mach 1.4 to 2.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Timeline/1940-44.html (4964 words)

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