Monthly Archives: March 2012

The USS Langley and the dawn of the aircraft carrier In March 1922, the U.S. Navy launched a bold experiment that really took off. Behold its first-ever aircraft carrier. by Jonathan E. Skillings  March 21, 2012 12:55 PM PDThttp://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1331751378.html#_=1332387054354&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=jeskillings&show_count=false&show_screen_name=false&size=m A Douglas DT-2 takes off from the USS Langley sometime in the mid-1920s. (Credit: Naval History & HeritageContinue reading “The first Aircraft Carrier – 1922”

Auckland Hosts International Aircraft | Scoop News. Media are invited to attend a media day for Exercise KIWIFLAG, a training exercise the Royal New Zealand Air Force is hosting as part of their 75th Anniversary activities. Participants from French Armed Forces of New Caledonia; Republic of Singapore Air Force; Royal Australian Air Force, the UnitedContinue reading “Auckland Hosts International Aircraft | Scoop News”

Adventurers follow in the footsteps of Shackleton a century on News Adventurers follow in the footsteps of Shackleton a century on 20 March 2012 A Royal Marine and petty officer will join four fellow adventurers to recreate the epic rescue journey made by Britain’s greatest Antarctic explorer a century ago. WO Baz Gray and POContinue reading “Adventurers follow in the footsteps of Shackleton”

  John Currin, the late Eddie Hotere, Twang Smith and Meatball Cunningham. I suspect drinking Tiger Tops in a Bar down in Sembawang. May have been The Armada Club at HMS Terror, Singapore

PLA 11th naval escort taskforce officiallyperforms escort mission (China Military Online) 08:43, March 20, 2012    http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/7762906.html After the handover of escort mission, the “Qingdao” warship unmoored and left the “Haikou” warship and the “Qinghai Lake” supply ship which anchored side by side on March 17, 2012. (China Military Online/Mi Jin’guo) Under the command of the 11th naval escort taskforce, the 10th and the 11th navalescort taskforces under the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) beganto conduct their second joint escort mission on the morning of March 18, 2012, localtime.  The 11th naval escort taskforce officially took the place of the 10th naval escorttaskforce to perform the escort mission. (China Military Online/Chen Dianhong and MiJin’guo)