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1st airplane landing on a moving warship...
1st airplane landing on a moving warship...
Item # 718286
November 23, 1922
CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Nov. 23, 1922
* Naval aviator Godfrey Chevalier
* Aeromarine 39 seaplane airplane
* 1st landing on a moving warship
* United States Navy aircraft carrier
* USS Langley - 1st U.S. aircraft carrier
The top of page 3 has a three column photo with heading: "First Landing of Land Airplane on Warship" and brief text. (see images)
Complete with 32 pages, light toning and some wear at the margins, generally good.
AI notes: The first airplane landing on a warship occurred on January 18, 1911, when civilian pilot Eugene B. Ely successfully landed a Curtiss biplane on a temporary wooden platform built on the USS Pennsylvania, which was anchored in San Francisco Bay. This historic event demonstrated the feasibility of shipboard aircraft operations. Eleven years later in 1922, Lieutenant Commander Godfrey Chevalier made the first successful landing on a moving aircraft carrier, the USS Langley, marking a crucial step in the development of naval aviation by proving that planes could safely operate from a ship underway.
Category: The 20th Century
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