At 11:01 a.m., on Jan. 18, 1911, Eugene Ely, flying a Curtiss pusher, landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania (ACR 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 ...
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:22:36 GMT — A demonstration flight commemorating the centennial of the Navy acquiring its first aircraft has been canceled after a reproduction of the 1911 seaplane crashed shortly ...
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Nearly a century ago, some of the nation’s first naval aviators flew over Annapolis in a plane built by the Wright brothers. Yesterday the 1911 Navy B-1 returned to the Naval Academy, this time as a ...
Brett Bonds grew up with Navy blood running through his veins. His great-grandfather was an officer. His grandfather attended the Naval Academy and rose to the rank of admiral. Both his parents ...
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y.HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. — A demonstration flight commemorating the centennial of the Navy acquiring its first aircraft has been canceled after a reproduction of the 1911 seaplane crashed ...
HAMMONDSPORT, N.Y. (AP) — A demonstration flight commemorating the centennial of the Navy acquiring its first aircraft has been canceled after a reproduction of the 1911 seaplane crashed shortly after ...
The Steuben County Sheriff's Office said the reproduction Curtiss A-1 Triad took off from Keuka Lake around 7:35 p.m. Thursday and crashed back onto the water soon after outside Hammondsport, 55 miles ...