Biplane of pusher of Eugene b. Ely Curtiss asked on January 18, 1911, on the platform of landing on the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. (U.S. Naval Historical Center).Click on image for photo gallery.
On 14 November, civilian pilot Eugene Ely took off in an airplane Curtiss of 50 horses from a platform in wood on the bow of the cruiser USS Birmingham. Two months later, landed on the Pennsylvania Cruiser, had lunch and then took off again.
That on 8 may, the Navy wrote to its first aircraft applications. This brings us finally to Saturday, when Museum of Flight in Seattle open his last play, "Soaring sea: 100 years of Naval Aviation," in celebration of the Navy "of the 100th anniversary of Naval Aviation".
The Navy first saw aircraft as a complement to their main weapon: the battleship, according to Ted Young, a volunteer historian who helped create the Seattle room.
They have used aircraft - primarily seaplanes, to first - as aid armored forces are and target the enemy forces of Scouting. Some warships could catapult seaplane off their bridges and crane and then aircraft back again after the landing of the water.
This role continued even after the British and Americans, began to build carriers, said Young. "The carriers were essentially subservient to the Dreadnoughts."
While some officers of the Navy envisioned a much more important role for carriers and aircraft, they carry the day to December 7, 1941, when the Japanese have shown what could do such a force and forced the hand of U.S., sinking or damaging 21 U.S. ships, including eight battleships.
The Japanese used a six aircraft with more than 400 aircraft carrier battle group, noted the Young. "There was a group of men in the United States Navy who believed passionately, that is how we must manage carrier."
By chance, the American Pacific fleet three aircraft carriers were not at Pearl Harbor at the time. The United States were also three carriers in the Atlantic and another that have not yet applied its shakedown cruise.
The second world war, Young stated: "the ironclads essentially becomes floating anti-aircraft platforms to protect carriers."
While the second world war proved the need for air power, the war of Korea demonstrated capacity to rapidly deploy forces where you do not have aerodrome, said Young. "Aircraft carrier were off the coast of the Korea, flying missions against the North Korean invasion in a week or two after the beginning of the Korea war in June 1950."
The exhibition traces the evolution of naval aviation up to the last of the supersonic aircraft and UAV unmanned with photos, charts, models and objects as a collection of fighter pilot helmets, a combination of theft of war Korea and a shirt and deck trainsets carrier crew members. It also notes the role of aviation on the sea of the coast guard connection and marine and Northwest to the sea-based aviation, including the production of aircraft Boeing dating back to the first seaplane, marine and coastal bases of the guard along the coast and a blimp Squadron which was based in Tillamook, Ore.
The young father was a Naval Aviator who flew patrol aircraft Consolidated PBY Catalina from the Aleutian Islands during the second world war. His wife was born in Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.
An artifact most personal is the wings of Robert a. Lovett, who was 66th Naval Aviator - a number, it has developed on its custom license plate, according to the grandson David Brown, a local who lent the wings of the exhibition.
Brown recalled his father, who was also a Naval Aviator, citing this experience to end long dinner-table debate, saying: "have you never been 76 at night on an aircraft carrier landings.
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