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General => News and Rumors => Topic started by: Pendrake on July 18, 2013, 03:18:27 pm
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18th of January 1911, Naval Aviation is born: Eugene Ely lands an airplane on USS Pennsylvania. First time a plane successfully lands on a ship.
(102 years, 7 months ago -or- 1231 months ago) (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1911/ely-pa2.htm)
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h77000/h77507.jpg)
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1911-2013, 102 Years of Manned Naval Aviation and Two World Wars ensue.
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10th of July 2013, Naval Aviation Changes Forever: A drone airplane lands itself on the USS George H. W. Bush. First successful landing by an unmanned airplane on a ship.
(8 days ago) (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0711/Drone-carrier-landing-Navy-successfully-completes-unmanned-carrier-landing-video)
(http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/thumb/msid-21011928,width-640,resizemode-4/x-47b-drone-us-navys-first-unmanned-carrier-landing.jpg)
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"The Anima are restless"
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Very interesting. What a difference a hundred years makes. I watched the video on YouTube--actually didn't realize how big those UAVs are.
Definitely progress. But I'll be SERIOUSLY impressed when it's a drone fighter landing on a space carrier. :). (sorry, just finished the first Star Carrier book!)