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USS Saratoga (CV/CVA/CVB-60) was the second of four Forrestal-class supercarriers built for the United States Navy in the 1950s. Saratoga was the sixth U.S. Navy ship, and the second aircraft carrier, to be named for the Battles of Saratoga in the American Revolutionary War .
English: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) with her crew manning the rail on the flight deck, as she arrives in Barcelona, Spain, 12 February 1965. Saratoga, with assigned Attack Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3), was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea from 28 November 1964 to 12 July 1965.
An A3D-2 from VAH-9 suffers a nose wheel collapse while landing on USS Saratoga, c. 1959. Prior to the initial operational capability of the U.S. Navy's Polaris-armed Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines, the A-3 was the Navy's critical element in the U.S. nuclear deterrent.
The crash of a Grumman S-2 Tracker moments after take-off from Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, kills all four U.S. Navy crew on board. A military spokesman said that the twin-engined anti-submarine warfare plane crashed and burned "after climbing to some 100-feet. Wreckage was spread over a wide area about one mile south of the base."
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First crash of a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress when B-52, 53–0384, [145] of the 93rd Bomb Wing, Castle Air Force Base, suffered an explosion of an electrical power panel located on the alternator deck blowing off the cover and causing a fire. The cover jammed the regulator valve of the left hand forward alternator disabling the over speed ...
An A3J-1 (later A-5A) during trials on USS Saratoga, 1960 The late 1940s and early 1950s were marked by a series of fast-paced advancements in the field of aviation. [ 2 ] The aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation (NAA) was one of a large number of companies that sought to harness these recent innovations in developing a new generation ...
I was on the Saratoga with VF-103 on work-ups before Desert Shield/Storm and through that war. The nicknames I hears were "Sorry Sara" and "Suckin 60 From Dixie". You also missed the fact that VF-103 had the only F14 Tomcat ever shot down at that point (Aircraft 207) and that the Pilot (Lt. Jones) was rescued and the NFO (Lt. Slade) was ...