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The Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, carrier-capable tactical airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft. This twin-turboprop aircraft was designed and developed during the late 1950s and early 1960s by the Grumman Aircraft Company for the United States Navy as a replacement for the earlier, piston-engined E-1 Tracer, which was rapidly becoming obsolete.
VAW-121 E-1B Tracer in 1971. Unlike its siblings, VAW-121 flew the E-1B Tracer, until the mid-1970s. [1] This was due to the fact there were still carriers in the fleet that were not capable of handling for the larger E-2 Hawkeye, principally USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Essex-class carriers.
In April and May 2011 the squadron transitioned to the E-2C CNS/ATM Hawkeye 2000 all-glass cockpit variant of the E-2C. In December 2011 Carrier Air Wing Two and VAW-116 once again deployed on USS Abraham Lincoln for an eight-month around the world deployment to the Fifth Fleet AOR in direct support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
E2-D the fourth variant of the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye reconnaissance plane. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter–number combination.
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The E-1, despite having a set of landing gear mounted under its nose, is a tail-dragger aircraft. This configuration provides the airframe with a distinct "nose-up" appearance when taxiing, and allows for the wings to generate more lift on launch from a catapult than if the aircraft was level due to the higher angle-of-attack (AoA) of the ...
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