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A century of tailhook aviation

nittany03

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100 years ago, "Roger Ball" was just some random dude's name. "Paddles" were something you played ping-pong with. A "trap" was the first step in making a fur coat.

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The rest is history.
 

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HuggyU2

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I'm sure Ms' Boxer and Pelosi are in mourning, due to the fact that Naval Aviation was founded in the waters around San Francisco.
Congrats on the first century, you Navy/Marine/Coastie types. :icon_zbee
 

Ducky

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I'm sure Ms' Boxer and Pelosi are in mourning, due to the fact that Naval Aviation was founded in the waters around San Francisco.
Congrats on the first century, you Navy/Marine/Coastie types. :icon_zbee

I bet they can't wait for the 90+ plane flyover of San Diego.

Happy 100th Birthday!
 

HAL Pilot

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I'm sure Ms' Boxer and Pelosi are in mourning, due to the fact that Naval Aviation was founded in the waters around San Francisco.
Congrats on the first century, you Navy/Marine/Coastie types. :icon_zbee
Hickory Dickory Dock, Boxer and Pelosi can...
 

HercDriver

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I'm sure Ms' Boxer and Pelosi are in mourning, due to the fact that Naval Aviation was founded in the waters around San Francisco.
Congrats on the first century, you Navy/Marine/Coastie types. :icon_zbee
I would say Naval Aviation began 2 moinths earlier when Eugene Ely flew a Curtiss Model D bi-plane from a platform constructed on the bow of the cruiser USS Birmingham anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on November 14, 1910.
 

nittany03

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I would say Naval Aviation began 2 moinths earlier when Eugene Ely flew a Curtiss Model D bi-plane from a platform constructed on the bow of the cruiser USS Birmingham anchored in Hampton Roads, Virginia, on November 14, 1910.
100 years of TAILHOOK aviation . . . try to keep up. :)
 

HuggyU2

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I bet they can't wait for the 90+ plane flyover of San Diego.
Happy 100th Birthday!
I will be there. Hope to see some of you there.
Their initial hope was to get 150 aircraft. Don't know the latest plan.
 
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