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Originally Posted by Aktungbby
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...
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Didnt know that they already had mid air refueling - 3 day flight WOW!!!
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