NAVAL AVIATION HERITAGE

Question 1

What is significant about 14 November 1910?

Answer 1

First take-off from a ship, Eugene Ely, a civilian pilot, took off in Curtiss from a wooden platform on the bow of USS Birmingham CL2

Question 2

8 May 1911?

Answer 2

BIRTHDAY of naval aviation. Captain W. I. Chambers requisitioned for 2 Glenn Curtiss biplanes, showed decision to which airplanes the Navy should purchase. Purchase price was $5,500 each, and later became Navy’s first aircraft the A-1 Triad.

Question 3

20 June 1913?

Answer 3

Ensign William D. Billingsley, was the first fatality of Naval Aviation. Lt John Towers was also on board and unseated but clung to the plane and fell with it into water receiving serious injury

Question 4

22 Oct 1917?

Answer 4

Courses to train as inspectors added at MIT with 14 men enrolled. The predecessors of the modern QAR

Question 5

20 March 1922?

Answer 5

The Jupiter, former coal-carrier, was recommissioned after conversion to Navy’s first Carrier, the USS LANGLEY CV-

Question 6

10 March 1948?

Answer 6

The first navy Jet made First Carrier landing on the USS BOXER CV-21

Question 7

What was the conflict for Coral Sea 7-8 May 1942?

Answer 7

Jap lanes sand 2 ships while US planes sank a carrier. Next day both launched their planes, Worlds first Carrier verses Carrier battle. Japs lost 1 carrier US lost 2

Question 8

Midway 3-5 June 1942?

Answer 8

Turning point of the Pacific War. Jap armada with 160 ships, split the forces some north. Japs lost 4 carriers, we lost Yorktown. Japs lost bid for control of Pacific

Question 9

Guadalcanal 13-15 November 1942?

Answer 9

5 Sullivan brothers killed. Along with 700 others. Family separations were reinstated