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Posts Tagged ‘naval aviation’
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“Rise Above: Red Tail” Takes Flight at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum
Posted: Feb 21, 2020As you may have seen, we have been very excited about the Rise Above: Red Tail exhibit at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, and it is finally here! From […]
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The Ruptured Duck Comes Aboard The Yorktown
Posted: Jan 17, 2020An aquatic avian has taken up residence at Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum. As the museum looks towards the future, we are excited about improvements being made aboard our […]
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Events This Week: April 15-19, 2019
Posted: Apr 19, 2019This week in April is home to historical dates that we must never forget here at Patriots Point. Important dates this week: On April 15th, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was […]
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Vietnam Veterans Day 2019
Posted: Apr 08, 2019On Vietnam Veterans Day, Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum honored all Vietnam veterans as well as two men who lost their lives in the last marine helicopter crash of […]
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Video Thursday: First US Navy Carrier, USS Langley CV-1, Eighty-Seven Years Ago!
Posted: Nov 17, 2011On 17 November 1924, USS Langley (CV-1) reported for duty with the United States Navy’s Battle Fleet after two years in experimental status, thus becoming the Navy’s first operational aircraft […]
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Ensign Devotie Billingsley, First Naval Aviator Casualty 1913
Posted: Jun 20, 2011On 20 June 1913 Naval Aviation lost its first aviator when Ensign Devotie Billingsley fell from his aircraft. In the early days of Naval Aviation, aviators wore no torso harness […]
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Video Thursday 3.24.11 American Tomcats, Russian Sukhoi and French Super Entendard!
Posted: Mar 24, 2011This is the Centennial Year of Naval Aviation in the United States, and naval aviators have been flying onto (traps) and launching (cats) from ships for over 100 years. It […]
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"Naval Aviator" Sobriquet Born 1915
Posted: Mar 22, 2011Before 22 March 1915, a pilot in the Navy was known as a “Navy Air Pilot,” after that date the term became Naval Aviator. As the World War II poster […]
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Video Thursday…06 January 2011
Posted: Jan 06, 2011Welcome to Video Thursday! Since this year is the Centennial Year of Naval Aviation, today we’ll look at some old Naval Aviation technology aka aircraft and some new ones! Ride […]
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First United States Navy catapult launch, 12 November 1912
Posted: Nov 12, 2010The first launch of a naval aviator and naval aircraft took place from a catapult mounted on a barge at the Washington Navy Yard. On 12 November 1912, Lieutenant Ellyson, […]