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
