Photographer Erik Hildebrandt has captured the spirit of naval aviation in his remarkable, 372-page book Fly Navy: Celebrating the First Century of Naval Aviation. This masterwork of aviation imagery intertwines stories told not by the author but instead by the people with a front-row seat to the U.S. Navy then and now. Not that Hildebrandt didn't have an up-front seat as well. For two years, he was afforded incredible access as he traveled around the globe documenting Navy flight activities in war-torn Afghanistan, the skies over Hawaii with the Blue Angles, and seemingly everywhere in between.
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