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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
100 Years ago...Naval Aviation first
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Outside the Tanforan shopping mall in San Bruno is a small plaque marking the spot where Ely took off from on his way out to the ship to make his landing. The plaque is right next to the life-size statue of the horse - Seabiscut.
Ely was also the first person to take off from a ship, but he did that on the east coast. His first landing on a ship took place on the west coast. Never have learned why the Navy had him haul his stuff from one end of the country to the other and I never read what happened to the plane after he made his landing.
Ely was also the first person to take off from a ship, but he did that on the east coast. His first landing on a ship took place on the west coast. Never have learned why the Navy had him haul his stuff from one end of the country to the other and I never read what happened to the plane after he made his landing.
If you look at other pictures of this landing you will clearly see the flag on the ship blowing a tailwind. 
I don't think they had many aviation standards that we know now as pilots. This was a brand new 'science' of flying and landing on ships, aviation as a whole still in its infantcy, it is amazing how fast aircraft were able to be adapted to ship use.
I don't think they had many aviation standards that we know now as pilots. This was a brand new 'science' of flying and landing on ships, aviation as a whole still in its infantcy, it is amazing how fast aircraft were able to be adapted to ship use.