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Old 01-19-2011, 06:12 PM
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Happy 100th Birthday To The Aircraft Carrier
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One hundred years is a very long time. Yet in the hierarchy of modern marvels, the ability to recover and launch aircraft from the deck of a moving ship stands out as one of our signature accomplishments. Which just goes to show you: Some tricks never grow old.

Naval aviation was invented one hundred years ago today, on January 18, 1911, when a 24 year-old barnstormer pilot named Eugene B. Ely completed the world's first successful landing on a ship. It happened in San Francisco Bay, aboard the crusier USS Pennsylvania, which had a temporary, 133-foot wooden landing strip built above her afterdeck and gun turret as part of the experiment.

Read more here http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2011/01/the-100th-anniversary-of-marine-aviation.html





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Old 01-20-2011, 09:57 AM
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Come a long way in a hundred years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_ClI3EjQTs&feature=related

Bye Bye steam cats.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssy7KrLVs4A

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