News & Events
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Video Thursday 11/25/10
Posted: Nov 18, 2010Old technology at work! Here is our old World War II battleship technology at work, notice the effects on the surface of the sea beneath the gun blasts! Optical […]
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Radio Technology in Naval Aviation 1918
Posted: Nov 17, 2010On 17 November 1918 an H-16 flying boat from Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, detected a radio signal via their British six-stage amplifier radio direction finder from a Virginia radio […]
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Centennial event on the USS George H. W. Bush, CVN-77
Posted: Nov 16, 2010This event onboard the USS Bush (CVN-77) yesterday, 15 November, was a part of a ceremony to commemorate 100 years of naval aviation. The original Curtis Pusher flown by Eugene […]
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Hydraulic catapults enter Navy service 1934
Posted: Nov 15, 2010On 15 November 1934, the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics established plans to install hydraulic, flush-deck catapults on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) and USS Enterprise (CV-6). The Type H, Mark I […]
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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, […]
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Veterans Day interviews at Patriots Point
Posted: Nov 12, 2010See some of our veterans as they were interviewed on Veterans Day… Click here for WCBD TV Two news story… Click here for WCSC TV Live Five news story… […]
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Veterans of the Fighting Lady – full video
Posted: Nov 11, 2010Here is the full video story on our Veterans of the Fighting Lady exhibit created by Shell Royster and Steven Hyatt. Enjoy!
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Happy birthday United States Marine Corps, Semper Fi!
Posted: Nov 10, 2010Thanks for protecting America! We wish you many more birthdays, Happy 235th year of Semper Fi!
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Preview to Veterans Day and "Veterans of the Fighting Lady" Portrait Exhibit
Posted: Nov 08, 2010Join us on 11 November to commemorate Veterans Day on the USS Yorktown at Patriots Point. Our volunteer-veterans will be holding a “Meet and Greet” from 10 am to 2 […]
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Naval Research Laboratory and RADAR
Posted: Nov 05, 2010Eighty years ago on 05 November 1930, L. C. Young and L. A. Hyland of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) detected an aircraft while conducting experiments in the directional effects […]