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Aktungbby · 01-18-23, 01:31 PM

1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard
USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII...

<Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders, (flotation gear

) and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the plane.
Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to stop it after it reached the deck.

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...anuary-18-1911

01-18-23, 01:31 PM	#4453
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,998 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	No need for kamikazi's....just yet 1911: Legendary airman, Eugene Ely, lands aboard USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay in first shipboard touchdown after having flown off a ship 3 days before...essentially confirming carrier warfare's feasibility w/o a one-way trip later used by desperate Japan in WWII... <Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders, (flotation gear) and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the plane. Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to stop it after it reached the deck. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/e...anuary-18-1911 __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"