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First Navy Flight Gear Issue, 1917
Posted: Apr 06, 2011The United States Navy standardized the issuance of flight gear when the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, approved a recommendation of the Board on Flying Equipment on standard flight […]
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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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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, […]