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unusual facts about Naval Aviator



Brigham McCown

Mr. McCown has served the public on active duty in Operation Desert Storm with the United States Navy as a naval aviator and holds an honorary commission of Rear Admiral (LH) in the United States Maritime Administration.

G-1 military flight jacket

The G-1 remains a current uniform-issue item in naval aviation for officer and enlisted aviation personnel on flying status in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard (i.e., Naval Aviator, Naval Flight Officer, Naval Flight Surgeon, Naval Aircrewman, etc.) and is arguably best known as the leather flight jacket worn by Tom Cruise in the film Top Gun.

Robert J. Kelly

He was the senior Naval Aviator at the 1991 Tailhook scandal, and was subsequently recommended for forced retirement by Secretary of the Navy John Dalton.

Ron Clark Ball

A former Officer and Naval Aviator who flew the F-14 Tomcat and served in the United States Navy during Operation Desert Storm, his fictional novel Falcon on the Tower is a lauded debut suspense thriller that tackles issues of radical Islamic global terrorism in the 21st Century and its collision with capitalism.


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E. Duke Vincent

Vincent, a 1960-61 naval aviator who was a member of the famed Blue Angels flying team, had a 40-year career in television writing and production, involving 2300 hours of television.

First Yale Unit

Lt. David Ingalls, a member of the First Yale Unit, flying a Sopwith Camel with the RAF, was the first US naval aviator to become an ace.

Frederick Weber

Frederick T. Weber (1916–1942), naval aviator in the United States Navy during World War II

Godfrey Chevalier

On 8 May 1913, ensign Chevalier was the passenger in a long-distance flight of 169 miles, flown in a Curtiss flying boat piloted by Lieutenant John Henry Towers, Naval Aviator No. 3, from the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. down the Potomac River and then up the Chesapeake Bay to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

John Hayward

John T. Hayward (1908–1999), U.S. naval aviator and nuclear physicist

Jupiter Sajitarius

Producer = Noah23 (exec.), Bishop Orange, King Champion, Madadam, Naval Aviator, Orphan

Lance Krall

Because his father, John Krall, was a Naval aviator, and his mother Yung Krall, was a spy for the CIA, Lance spent most of his life moving from country to country and state to state.

Naval Air Station Pensacola

Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in June 1910, who was appointed a Naval Air Pilot No. 7 on 7 November 1915 and a Naval Aviator No. 7 on 7 November 1918.

Neuffer

Judith Neuffer (born 1948), United States Naval Aviator and NASA administrator

Ohio Wing Civil Air Patrol

Governor Bricker joined CAP in May 1942, as did Congressman John M. Vorys, himself a World War I naval aviator and former director of the Ohio Bureau of Aeronautics.

Ormsbee

Francis E. Ormsbee, Jr. (1892–1936), American naval aviator in the U.S. Navy during World War I, received the Medal of Honor for bravery

Page County, Virginia

Donald Edward Keyhoe (June 20, 1897 – November 29, 1988) was an American Marine Corps naval aviator, writer of many aviation articles and stories in a variety of leading publications, and manager of the promotional tours of aviation pioneers, especially of Charles Lindbergh.

Patrick Neeson Lynch

Bishop Lynch was a granduncle of pioneering US Naval aviator Patrick N. L. Bellinger.

Richard Evelyn Byrd, Sr.

One of his sons, Richard, became famous as a naval aviator who led an expedition to the South Pole; another, Harry, would serve as Governor of Virginia and in the United States Senate.

William P. Lawrence

Wendy B. Lawrence, one of Lawrence's daughters, graduated with the Naval Academy in 1981 and became a Naval Aviator and Astronaut, attaining the rank of Captain.