agreeing to disagree on certain issues. Only such an injection of realism can sustain genuine, if modest, progress.

The Navy's "The Transition to V/STOL1' James L.
Holloway 111, in Proceedings of the United V/STOL Plan States Naval Institute (Sept. 1977), An-

napolis, Md. 21402.
Without fanfare, the U.S. Navy decided in 1976 to move from reliance on conventional jet fighters taking off from big flat-tops like the Forres-tal and the Nimitz to development of new "vertical or short...