Naval flight crews - what is it?

[shaharhada]

In page 17 in the text with the title MIT and the Whirlwind Tradition
There is the the sentence:
The Whirlwind project, initiated at MIT in 1944 to develop a simulator to help train naval flight crews, progressed far beyond its original goals.
What the meaning of naval flight crews?
The crew of airplane in the air or ships in the sea?!
The text page 17:
https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/_media/pdf/dec.digital_at_work.1992.102630350.pdf

 

[kanewolf]

In page 17 in the text with the title MIT and the Whirlwind Tradition
There is the the sentence:
The Whirlwind project, initiated at MIT in 1944 to develop a simulator to help train naval flight crews, progressed far beyond its original goals.
What the meaning of naval flight crews?
The crew of airplane in the air or ships in the sea?!

Pilots and support that fly for the US Navy.

 

[kerberos_20]

In page 17 in the text with the title MIT and the Whirlwind Tradition
There is the the sentence:
The Whirlwind project, initiated at MIT in 1944 to develop a simulator to help train naval flight crews, progressed far beyond its original goals.
What the meaning of naval flight crews?
The crew of airplane in the air or ships in the sea?!
The text page 17:
https://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/_media/pdf/dec.digital_at_work.1992.102630350.pdf

you saw top gun? 😛

 

[Eximo]

US aircraft carriers host Air Force personnel as well as fielding their own Navy pilots. A distinction without a difference, one might say. Basically all 4 main branches of the US military have trained pilots fulfilling a wide variety of roles.

Air Force
Army
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard/National Guard/Space Force?
(Also the CIA, but I believe they mostly borrow pilots)

Fun fact, second largest air force in the world, the US Navy.

 

[USAFRet]

This is why there are "naval flight crews"