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NAVAL AIR POWER
MSgt Sutton, T. G (USMC).
UNCLASSIFIED
Aviation Heritage and Doctrine
First Controlled Flight Birth of Naval Aviation Significant Conflicts Naval Aviation Areas of Support Modern Aircraft
First Controlled Flight
Wright Brothers First “controlled”
flight. 17 December 1903
120 ft @ 6.2 MPH 175/200 ft Altitude of 10’
Birth of Naval Aviation
January 18, 1911 - Eugene Ely lands a Curtiss pusher onto a makeshift wooden platform constructed on the armored cruiser Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay.
Birth of Naval Aviation
May 8, 1911 - Capt. Washington Irving Chambers prepares contract specifications for the Navy's first aircraft.
Birth of Naval Aviation
July 1, 1911 - The Navy's first aircraft, the A-1 Triad, makes its maiden flight from Keuka Lake at Hammondsport, New York.
Birth of Naval Aviation
USS Langley (CV-1) Converted in 1920 from the USS Jupiter (AC-
3) March 20, 1922 - Commissioned
Birth of Naval Aviation
April 24, 1914 - An AB-3 flying boat flown by LT Patrick N.L. Bellinger completes the first combat flight by a U.S. military aircraft, flying a recon mission at Veracruz, Mexico.
Birth of Naval Aviation
Mar 30, 1916 - Second LT Charles Sugden and Third LT Elmer F Stone become the first two Coast Guard aviators assigned to flight instruction.
November 11, 1920 First successful
trans-Atlantic flight"
Birth of Naval Aviation
September 24, 1918 - LTJG David S. Ingalls shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft over the Western Front, becoming U.S. Naval Aviation's first fighter ace.
Only Navy Ace of WWI
Significant Conflicts
Significant Conflicts
Coral Sea May 7-8, 1942 - U.S. Navy and Imperial
Japanese Navy engagement in which ships of the opposing forces are not within sight of one another.
Significant Conflicts
Coral Sea USS Lexington
Scuttled USS Yorktown
Significant Conflicts
UNITED STATES JAPAN
1 fleet carrier scuttled,1 destroyer sunk,1 oiler sunk,1 fleet carrier damaged,69 aircraft destroyed
1 light carrier sunk,1 destroyer sunk,3 small warships sunk,1 fleet carrier damaged,1 destroyer damaged,2 smaller warships damaged,1 transport damaged,92 aircraft destroyed.
Significant Conflicts
Midway One month after
Coral Sea Six Months after
Pearl Harbor Decisive Naval
Battle of WWII
Significant Conflicts
UNITED STATES JAPAN
1 carrier sunk (Yorktown)1 destroyer sunk~150 aircraft destroyed
4 carriers sunk1 cruiser sunk248 carrier aircraft destroyed
Naval Aviation Areas of Support
Reconnaissance / Surveillance Anti-Submarine Logistics Support Search and Rescue Mine Warfare
Armament
Bombs Free falling
explosive weapons
Guided (Smart) or Unguided
Armament
Rockets Exposive Section Propulsion Section Unable to change direction once fired. Little recoil
Armament
Missiles Explosive Section and Propulsion Section Guidance Section
Armament
Mines Underwater explosive deployed by Ship,
Submarine, or Aircraft. Defend Vital Straits, port approaches,
convoy anchorages and seaward coastal barriers.
Torpedoes Self propelled underwater missles
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