Over at Blackfive’s place, Pinch has sad news:
It is with deep regret that I pass on the sad news the CAPT Frank W. Ault, USN, Retired made his final take off August 20, 2006 at his home in Arlington, VA. Frank
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Last callAugust 28th, 2006 | Tags: sea stories | Category: Uncategorized
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One of the better books I’ve had was “Scream of Eagles”, telling the story of the birth of the Fight Weapon School. Capt. Ault was a major figure in the book. Any serious student of Naval Aviation HAS to read that book, if for no other reason than to never make the mistakes that lead to the Ault Report.
Oh, BTW…CAPT. Ault had big ones…
I was around when he was CO of the Coral Sea. He took command just after her first combat cruise, and it was on that deployment that he started ruminating on what later became the Ault Report.
Interesting to note that, as a Heavy Attack guy, he was the one responsible for Top Gun.
Sorry, small correction: He took command after the Coral Maru’s first Vietnam deployment and took her on her second one….
He always struck me as one of the last “old school” naval aviators…like the pre-war guys D.V. Gallery and the like.
Any relation in his family to Ault Field in Whidbey? It is an unusual name, seems like there may be a connection.
Dave
All fighter pilots owe a debt to Gengis John Boyd, an Air Force type for Petes sake, for his ideas on the Thermodynamics of aerial combat (ACM) and the decision cycle.
Navy power also owes thoughts on Admiral James Russel who flew PBY’s in Alaska during WW2 and was on the Bomb staff immediately after the war. Both were fine gentlemen.
Every day we lose more of the Greatest Generation, they are almost all gone now.
I feel the need for a Wake to celebrate their having been here long enough to get to know.
I had the same thought about NAS Whidbey’s field but it was named for another Ault:
http://www.naswi.navy.mil/pao/history.htm
Concur on Boyd,Slug.
Now, with respect to Captain Ault, uh, please don’t hurt me, Lex, but I sure reckoned somebody else with more authority than I would have said it sooner, but…
Fighter pilots make movies, attack pilots make history. (runs away, ducking bobbing and weaving.);-)
My oldest brother, Casey, Frank’s grandson, a 4th generation naval aviator, is stationed out of whidbey. He has had to insistently tell people ‘no relation’.