Flying, I think for anybody, has to be exhilarating, when you can go straight up or flip on your back, go straight down, or pull all kinds of Gs. You're in a constant mode of competing and challenging yourself. You seldom run into an aviator who doesn't like what he's doing.1 So the late Chief of Naval Operations and carrier naval aviator Admiral Thomas B. Hayward described life as a lieutenant test pilot at Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River in 1954. The Naval Institute has been covering carrier aviation since its early days, capturing the developments, the exhilaration, and all the ups and downs (literal and figurative) in Proceedings, Naval History, oral histories, and books from the Naval Institute Press.

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