United States Navy Aircraft since 1911

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Whereas in many other countries Naval aviation lagged behind the establishment of Army air wings or independent air force s, the U.S. Navy's interest can be dated from 1898 when naval ofíicers joined their Army counterparts on an official board to investi-gate the potential of Sámuel P. Langley's flying machine, the so-called 'Aerodrome'. By 1909, naval ofíicers were enthusiastic over the prospect of aircraft as fleet scouts, and as early as 1910 an officer had been appointed to co-ordinate all aviation matters within the Navy.
Aircraft procurement by the Navy began the following year, and the new air arm grew quickly in size and importance. Although serving somewhat different pur-poses, and often operating under very different conditions, U.S. Naval Aviation has complemented the Army Air Corps and later the U.S.A.F. for 57 years. In that time, it has fought three major wars -World War II, Korea and Vietnam - has played a peace-keeping role in many parts of the world, and has... Tovább

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Whereas in many other countries Naval aviation lagged behind the establishment of Army air wings or independent air force s, the U.S. Navy's interest can be dated from 1898 when naval ofíicers joined their Army counterparts on an official board to investi-gate the potential of Sámuel P. Langley's flying machine, the so-called 'Aerodrome'. By 1909, naval ofíicers were enthusiastic over the prospect of aircraft as fleet scouts, and as early as 1910 an officer had been appointed to co-ordinate all aviation matters within the Navy.
Aircraft procurement by the Navy began the following year, and the new air arm grew quickly in size and importance. Although serving somewhat different pur-poses, and often operating under very different conditions, U.S. Naval Aviation has complemented the Army Air Corps and later the U.S.A.F. for 57 years. In that time, it has fought three major wars -World War II, Korea and Vietnam - has played a peace-keeping role in many parts of the world, and has supported many important research programmes, such as exploration of the Antarctic and the recovery of returning space satellites.
To enable it to perform its many missions, the Navy (together with the U.S. Marines' air arm) has operated a wide rangé of opera-tional and support aircraft. All of these types are fully described and illustrated in United States Navy Aircraft since 1911, a companion volume to the same authors' United States Military Aircraft since 1909. The main part of the book comprises descriptions of the 125 most significant types of aircraft, each accompanied by one or more photographs, and multi-view line drawings by L. E. Bradford. Another 130 types, of less importance in Naval history, are illustrated and described more briefly; separate appendices are devoted to airships and gliders in Naval service, jcontinued Vissza