One hundred years ago Tuesday, Eugene Ely, a 26-year-old automobile racer-turned-aviator, landed a fragile-looking biplane on the deck of the Navy cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay and made ...

1911: A Curtiss biplane becomes the first airplane to perform a landing on a ship. The plane, piloted by Eugene Ely, landed on a platform bolted to the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania moored in San ...

Eugene Ely's pioneering shipboard landing and takeoff in 1911 officially launched naval aviation, which rapidly evolved through two World Wars, driven by advancements in iconic aircraft like the F4U ...

Twenty-four year old Eugene Ely sat in his flying machine as he calculated the wind and observed the weather. The weather had been bad, but the rain had stopped and the wind had let up a little. “The ...

The news item about the U.S. Navy’s plans to fly drone aircraft off of carriers came just 100 years after the first carrier landing and takeoff. It was not long after the Wright brothers’ epic flight ...

1879 - USS Constitution, while sailing back to the U.S. from France, ran aground off Bollard Head on the south coast of England. She was towed to the Portsmouth Navy Yard and placed in Dry Dock 11 for ...

Eugene B. Ely had to have the spirit of a daredevil. He was the first naval aviator – and he performed his fetes on separate seaboard flights in Hampton Roads and San Francisco Bay. Ely was born in ...

The self-taught pilot made naval aviation history 93 years ago this weekend. Q: How? A: On January 18, 1911, he became the first person to land an aeroplane on the deck of a ship. Q: Was it a stunt? A ...

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In 1851, Herman Melville’s novel “Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale” was published in the United States, almost a month after being released in Britain. In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln ...

Ely makes the first landing on a warship in the San Francisco bay, 1911. 1911: A Curtiss biplane becomes the first airplane to perform a landing on a ship. The plane, piloted by Eugene Ely, lands on a ...