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14 Nov 1910 |
Eugene Ely, a civilian pilot, was the first pilot to take off from a ship in a 50-sup Curtiss plane from the wooden platform on the bow of the USS Birmingham. The ship was anchored in Hampton Roads, VA. Ely landed safe on Willoughby split. |
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8 May 1911 |
Capt. W. I. Chambers prepared requisitions for two Glenn Curtiss biplanes at $5,500 each. May 8 is the official birthday of Naval Aviation. |
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20 June 1913 |
Ens. Willam D. Billingsley was thrown from his B-2 at 1600 ft above the water in Annapolis, MD and fell to his death becoming the first fatality of Naval Aviation. His passenger, Lt. John H. Towers, was also unseated but clung to the plane receiving serious injuries. |
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22 October 1917 |
MIT created special courses to train men as inspectors and added them to the Ground School Programs with 14 men enrolled. It was eventually established as inspector school and produced 58 motor and 114 airplane inspectors by the end of the war. This was the beginning of modern QARs. |
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20 March 1922 |
The Jupiter, a former coal carrier, was recommissioned after conversion to the navy's first carrier, the USS Langley CV-1. |
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10 March 1948 |
FJ-1 Fury, the first Navy jet made its first carrier landing on the USS Boxer CV-21 |
