Perfect Trap: Meet the godfather of Navy and Marine Corps aviation
Mark Carlson, Aviation History
Today every U.S. naval aviator who straps into an aircraft cockpit owes a debt to a man they never met and few have even heard of, Vice Adm. Frederick M. Trapnell, the “godfather of modern Naval Aviation.â€
Every fighter, attack aircraft, troop carrier, transport, helicopter and aerial surveillance plane in the Navy inventory for the last 65 years has been tested, evaluated and improved by the dedicated graduates of the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland.
There, hundreds of men and women are the direct inheritors of the legacy that Trapnell began when he first pinned on his Wings of Gold in 1927.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2020/02/16/perfect-trap-meet-the-godfather-of-navy-and-marine-corps-aviation/
