Launch ’Em USS Hancock 1956

A lighthearted look at early Naval jet aviation. Featuring VF-121, an F9F-8 Cougar squadron aboard the USS Hancock in 1956. As the story goes, an Admiral saw it and ordered it to be put in the burn bag for not reflecting the character and integrity of the Navy. But a copy was rescued. Steaming home from a WestPac deployment can be a long, monotonous trip for the Air Wing pilots. There’s no flying; their planes are chained to the deck. For them it generally means movie marathons in the Ready Room, catching