![]() ![]() These are over 50 small grid fighters I have build since I started to play SE, half of the ships is inspired by other ships from different movies and games and the other half is a test of a concept which I was exploring. Please let me know are you getting the same issue.Īgain the collection is causing some performance issues, soon I will be uploading my ships in separate category's based on Engine type (Ion, Ion/Hydrogen, Hydrogen. Naval aviation was born.Note: Torpedo Mod is causing some graphical issues (smoke sprites spawning) on my client. ![]() Ely took off, flew past the crowd, and landed safely back at Tanforan. After lunch with the ship’s captain and a few photographs, the platform was cleared and the Pennsylvania was pointed into the wind. To the delight of thousands of spectators, Ely made a safe landing, the arresting equipment working perfectly. At 11:00 a.m., Ely took off from nearby Tanforan Race Track and headed for the Pennsylvania. Crowds lined the shore and boats collected in the harbor to witness the daring flight. With longer wings and hooks on the landing gear, and Ely donning a padded football helmet and bicycle inner tubes around his body in case anything went awry, all was ready on the morning of January 18, 1911. There was also a canvas awning at the end to catch the airplane if the ropes and sandbags were not sufficient. This time a longer platform was in place, 120 feet, along with ropes and sandbags stretched across to serve as a crude arresting system for landing. The armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania was prepared and anchored in San Francisco Bay. With Ely and the Curtiss team scheduled to fly in San Francisco in January, Chambers made arrangements for the attempt on the west coast. Despite the somewhat harrowing flight off the Birmingham, Ely was ready to try. Ely managed to stay airborne and landed 2 ½ miles away on the nearest land, called Willoughby Spit.Įugene Ely makes the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. The Curtiss rolled off the edge of the platform, settled, and briefly skipped off the water, damaging the propeller. Ely succeeded in making the first take-off from a ship, barely. Ely’s Curtiss Pusher aircraft (similar to the Curtiss D-III Headless Pusher on display at the National Mall Building), equipped with floats under the wings, was hoisted aboard and the ship moved off shore. On November 14, 1910, the light cruiser USS Birmingham was readied at Norfolk, Va., with a wooden platform erected on the bow, approximately 80 feet long. If he would supply the ship, would they make the attempt to land on board? Ely was excited at the prospect and agreed. He met Glenn Curtiss and Eugene Ely at the competition and made a proposition. Chambers attended one of the first major flying meetings, being held at Belmont Park, NY, in October 1910. Chambers “to observe everything that will be of use in the study of aviation and its influence upon the problems of naval warfare.” Chambers quickly realized the most important first step to prove that the airplane could operate at sea was to show that landings and take-offs from ships were possible. In the fall of 1910, the Navy identified Captain Washington I. He had natural skills as an aviator and quickly became a well-known pilot with the Curtiss Exhibition Team that toured all around the county. ![]() He taught himself to fly in 1910 and never looked back. Eugene Ely before landing on the USS Pennsylvania, 18 January 1911Īfter receiving an engineering degree in 1904 from Iowa State University, Ely began a career in the fledging automobile industry as a salesman, mechanic, and racing driver. ![]()
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