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As World War Two drew to a close, jet-powered aircraft were beginning to be introduced into service. To take advantage of this major development it was necessary for all the world's air powers to rethink combat tactics and develop the means of handling these faster and generally larger aircraft in the air, on land and especially at sea. As this modern breed approached and finally broke the sound barrier, so did landing and take-off speeds. The decade after the war saw rapid developments in the design of both naval aircraft and their seaborne bases - the aircraft carrier. The first jet to land aboard a carrier was a modified de Havilland Vampire in 1945 on HMS Ocean. Progress was rapid and the application of British inventions such as the angled flight-deck, steam catapult and mirror landing sight soon became adopted by the major navies of the world. Naval aircraft too became more sophisticated by the addition of high-lift flap systems and strengthened undercarriages to allow them to operate more safely at sea. The author describes the development of these improvements and then their operational advantages in the Korean War and Suez. He goes on to describe the US development of a potential nuclear carrier-borne bomber, the French Navy and its withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 and then the use of naval aircraft for anti-submarine work.
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• Part I: Beginnings (1812-1821)-- Social conditions and disease prevention in early nineteenth century Britain-- Britain's major maritime organisations, shipyards, and London's docks-- Conditions of service in the mercantile organisations-- Diseases afflicting sailors before 1821-- The SHS's precursor: early meetings aimed at London's homeless: 'Most of the destitutes seem to be sailors'-- 'This laudable institution': the permanent society is launched in 1821-- Part II: The days of the hospital-ships (1821-1870)-- John Lydekker (1778-1832): a benefaction leading to the Act of Incorporation, and other fund-raising initiatives-- The hospital-ships-- Conditions of service on the hospital-ships-- Fundraising in the days of the ships-- Diseases on the hospital-ships-- Administrators, physicians and surgeons who served during the ship era-- Part III: The SHS in 'full swing' (1870-1939)-- Transfer of facilities to the infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Greenwich - in 1870-- Expansion of facilities - at the Dreadnought, and further afield-- The society's expanding staff - 1870-1914-- Diseases encountered by the Society 1870-1914-- Nursing and nurse-training at the Dreadnought and AHD: establishment of a school on Nightingale lines-- Genesis of the first school for tropical diseases - at the ADH-- The London School of Clinical Medicine (1906-14), and structural changes to the Dreadnought Hospital-- Part IV: (1914-2006) Two world wars, introduction of the National Health Service, and insidious decline of the society-- The Great War (1914-18)-- the inter-war years-- and several new facilities-- Staffing during the Great War and inter-war years-- The Second World War (1939-45): introduction of the National Health Service (1948)-- and decline in the Society's activities-- Disease(s) at the society's hospitals ain the latter years of the twentieth century-- The society's staff in recent times-- The society (and its tropical medicine component) in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook explores disease in the merchant navy through the history of the Seamen's Hospital Society. From its foundation in 1812, until the present day, the Seamen's Hospital Society has been responsible for the physical welfare of merchant seamen and has headed many remarkable advances in medical science. This handsome volume is ideal for all those with an interest in the Seamen's Hospital Society, medical and naval historians, and general readers with an interest in maritime and naval history.
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• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Executive Summary-- 3 1 Introduction-- 4 2 Strategic and Technology Planning and Disruptive Capabilities for Naval Aviation-- 5 3 Science and Technology for the Disruptive Capabilities-- 6 4 Science and Technology Planning for Naval Aviation-- 7 Appendix A Terms of Reference-- 8 Appendix B Committee Meeting Agendas-- 9 Appendix C Committee and Staff Biographies-- 10 Appendix D Allocation of Funding in the Naval Aviation Program at the Office of Naval Research-- 11 Appendix E Acronyms and Abbreviations.
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The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nationa (TM)s armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power 21. Many new war-fighting concepts will be needed to implement this vision, and the ONR has requested the NRC to identify new science and technology opportunities for new naval aviation capabilities to support those concepts. This report presents an assessment of what they imply for naval aviation, an analysis of some capabilities that, if developed, would make a significant contribution to realizing those concepts, and an identification of key technologies in which ONR could invest to achieve those capabilities. In particular, the report focuses on seven key capabilities: multispectral defense, unmanned air operations, hypersonic weapons delivery, fast-kill weapons, heavy-lift air transport, intelligent combat information management, and omniscient intelligence.
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Explores acceleration of the pace at which the U.S. Coast Guard can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment (50 or more nautical miles from shore) and whether the original Integrated Deepwater System program to modernize its aging cutters and aircraft will provide the Coast Guard with a force structure to meet the demands of its traditional missions and emerging responsibilities. 450-character abstract: Explores whether the pace at which the U.S. Coast Guard can acquire surface and air assets that it will operate in the deepwater environment (50 or more nautical miles from shore) can be accelerated and whether the original Integrated Deepwater System program to modernize its aging ships and aircraft will provide the Coast Guard with a force structure to meet the demands of its traditional missions and emerging responsibilities as part of the new Department of Homeland Security.
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• LZ-126 : birthplace Friedrichshafen
• ZR-3 : homeport Lakehurst
• Balloons and billets : lighter-than-air training
• Rosendahl's reign
• Testbed for the new ships
• Grounded.

In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantanamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet - a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy discovered new civilian arenas where pilots could test their courage and skill - weather reconnaissance was one of them. Hurricane hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without the modern technology of the 21st century they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at the windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, this book reconstructs the ill-fated mission, from preflight checks to the moment of their final transmission.
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With the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 and its impact on strategic thinking, the future of naval aviation looked bleak. Rapid demobilization after the war eliminated many carriers, and most policy makers believed that future wars would be fought with nuclear weapons delivered by land-based aircraft. In "Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers", Jerry Miller traces the struggle of respected naval leaders to promote a different vision and the innovations in the design and engineering of carriers and aircraft that resulted. He argues that the Navy's hard-won nuclear capability played a significant role in ending the Cold War.
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