Friday, June 30, 1911. The Navy acquires an airplane.
The U.S. Navy acquired a Curtiss A-1 Triad, becoming the first navy the world to acquire an airplane.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 30, 1911. The Navy acquires an airplane
Lex Anteinternet: Friday, June 30, 1911. The Navy acquires an airpl...: The U.S. Navy acquired a Curtiss A-1 Triad, becoming the first navy the world to acquire an airplane. The Fuerzas Regulares Indigenas, the ...
Friday, November 14, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.:
Monday, November 14, 1910. First Ship Launch.
Eugene B. Ely took off in an airplane from the USS Birmingham in the first shipboard takeoff.
He landed in Hampton Roads.
He'd follow that up by being the first person to land an airplane on a ship on January 18, 1911.
Not too surprisingly, he died in an aviation accident on October 19, 1911. He received a posthumous Distinguished Flying Cross on February 16, 1933.
Friday, November 7, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...
Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial avia...: The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from ...
Oddly enough, showing the dangers of an earlier age, his mother had been killed when he was a child by a runaway horse.
Monday, November 7, 1910. Dawn of commercial aviation.
The first commercial airplane flight took place when Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee transported two bolts of silk (worth $1,000) from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, for delivery to the Morehouse-Martens Department Store in Columbus.
Predictably, Parmalee died two years later in an airplane crash.
Philip Parmalee
The HMCS Rainbow arrived at Esquimault, British Columbia, to begin her service patrolling the Pacific coast. She was the Royal Canadian Navy's second ship.
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.:
Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Monday, March 10, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, March 8, 1910. First pilot's license issued to a woman.
Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, March 8, 1910. First pilot's license iss...:
Tuesday, March 8, 1910. First pilot's license issued to a woman.
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