Block 12 - Naval Aviation Heritage Flashcards
When was the first take off from a ship?
14 November 1910
Who was the civilian pilot who took off in a 50 HP Curtiss plane from a wooden platform built on the bow of USS Birmingham
Eugene Elly
When did Captain W.I. Chambers prepared requisitions for to Glenn Curtiss biplanes which later became the Navy’s first aircraft, A-1 briad?
8 May 1911
He was the first fatality of Naval Aviation, who is piloting the B-2 at 1600 ft over the water near Annapolis, MD when he was thrown from the plane, and fell to his death?
Ensign William D Billingsley
Who is riding as a passenger with ensign Billingsley and was also unseated from the plane but clung to the plane and fell with it into water, receiving serious injuries?
Lieutenant John H Towers
Eventually established as an inspector school, this program met expanding need for qualified inspectors of aeronautical material by producing 58 motor and 114 airplane inspectors before the end of the war, becoming the predecessors of what?
Modern quality assurance Representatives
The Jupiter, a former Collier or coal carrier, was recommissioned after conversion to the Navy’s first carrier, known as?
USS Langley (CV-1)
In what year did the Navy commissioned its 1st helicopter Squadron the HU-1 and the first Carrier Landing was made by a US Navy jet (FJ - 1 Fury lands aboard the USS boxer)?
1948
15 May 1961, who was the Naval aviator who became the first American to go into space by completing a flight reaching 116 miles high and 302 miles down range before recovery by an HUS-1 helicopter and the USS Lake Champlain?
Alan B Shepard Jr
When did the Naval aviator Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?
20-21 July 1969
In which year did the first of many female Navy Aviators successfully pass Fleet carrier qualifications in combat aircraft?
1994
What became the first combat ship to receive permanently assigned women?
USS Eisenhower
When did the Battle of the Coral Sea happen?
7 - 8 May 1942
When did the Battle of Midway happen?
3-5 June 1942
The tragedy in 1942 involving which ship reinstated the Navy policy concerning family member separations?
USS Juneau
On which date was the first US flag raised over the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York City was hoisted on board USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
30 September 2001
On 7th October 2001, an aircraft from which ship launched the first strike of the war in retaliation of the first attack on the 11th September 2001?
USS Enterprise
Sustained Naval and Joint operations are made possible by Logistics support system that has two major components
Fleet-based sustainment assets
Strategic sustainment assets
What type of assets include Replenishment ships from the combat Logistics Force providing direct flight support, combat service support units, mobile repair facilities, and advanced Logistics support hubs?
Fleet based sustainment assets
What is provided by Air and assets that are shared by all services?
Strategic sustainment
What is a Commander’s complete description of a concept of operation and is based on the Commander’s preparation of the battlespace, a formal evaluation, supported by intelligence, that integrates enemy Doctrine with such factors as physical and environmental conditions?
Operation plan
Which part of the operation plan as a general concept of the organizational relationships?
Theaters strategy
Which part of the operation plan sequences the movement of the fore and its Logistical support into the theater?
Deployment plan
What includes the search for an interception, recording, and Analysis of radiated electromagnetic energy, used in support of military operations and tasks?
Reconnaissance and surveillance
What is used to locate and Destroy submarines?
Anti-submarine
What involves the taking of an area of land where the land and sea meet and may include the landing of troops and equipment?
Amphibious assault
What involves the transport of troops, personnel, and cargo or equipment where needed by the military?
Logistics support
What provides search data and surveillance of an area where the rescue is to take place?
Search and rescue
What pertains to the use of ships, aircraft, submarines, and helicopters to locate and Destroy enemy mines?
Mine Warfare
What is the first aircraft carrier, commissioned in 20 March 1922?
USS Langley
What is the first jet-powered naval aircraft and was the first US test of the adaptability of jet aircraft for shipboard operations?
FH - 1 Phantom
Who made the first test flight of FH - 1, making a successful takeoff and Landing from the deck of the USS Franklin D Roosevelt (CVB - 42)?
Commander James Davidson
Who was the first Naval aviator in space, who flew a 15-minute suborbital flight on board the Mercury capsule, Freedom 7, on Five May 1961
Alan Shepard
Who serves as the senior enlisted representative of the Navy and acts as the primary enlisted advisor to the chief of Naval operations?
Master chief petty officer of the Navy
The sailor’s Creed was written by a blue ribbon recruit training panel in 1993 at the direction of which chief of Naval operations?
Admiral Jeremy boorda
What is the world’s oldest commissioned Naval vessel afloat?
USS Constitution
Which military custom began in the days of chivalry when it was customary for Knights dressed in armor to raise their visors to friends for the purpose of identification?
Hand salute
Salute to the American flag are prescribed by which article in the US Navy regulations
Article 1207
How do Merchant ships salute Navy ships
Dipping their ensigns
What are used to honor individuals, Nations, and certain national holidays?
Gun salutes
How many gun salutes are given for the president of the United States and for rules of foreign Nations recognized by the United States?
21
Which special occasions in our country’s history are marked by a 21-gun salute fired at 1 minute intervals, commencing at 1200?
Presidents Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Who are stationed on either side of the route across the Quarterdeck taken by arriving and departing high-ranking officers are civilian officials who are making official cause to the ship?
Side Boys
At commands and aboard ships of the Navy not under way, the ceremonial hoisting and lowering of the national flag at 0800 and sunset are known as
Morning and evening colors
5 minutes before morning and evening colors, which pennant is hoisted?
Prepare to pennant (PREP)
What is the rectangular blue part of the United States flag containing the star and it symbolizes the union of the states of the United States?
Union Jack
