Название: Flat Tops and Fledglings - A History of American Aircraft Carriers
Издательство: Castle Books
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 534
Язык: English
Размер: 75.7 MB
March 20, 1922, marked the beginning of carrier aviation in the US Navy with the commissioning of the experimental carrier USS Langley CV-1. Some 48 years later, the aircraft carrier is our Navy's number one line of defense. Naval aviation first went to sea on November 14, 1910, when Eugene Ely, a Curtiss exhibition pilot, took off from a platform built on the deck of the light cruiser USS Birmingham CL-2, anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia.