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Oversized and magnificently illustrated, this book by historians and active duty and retired officers will be cherished by aviators and the countless others who have been inspired by the feats of U.S. naval aviation. 500 photos, 300 in color.
Traces the history of the only government-owned and operated aircraft production facility in the U.S.
Although a large number of experimenters gave their attention to the problem of mechanical flight previous to the last decade of the nineteenth century, nothing practical was achieved prior to that time. But with the perfection of the steam engine and the development of the internal combustion engine, there came inducement to sound experimentation bringing forth such well known scientists and inventors as Lilienthal, Maxim, Langley, and the Wright brothers. Otto Lilienthal, a German, made the first successful flight in a man-carrying glider in 1891. Sir Hiram Maxim was an Englishman who in 1893 built a gigantic airplane powered with a steam engine driving two large propellers. Prof. S. P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution was the first person to construct an airplane possessing inherent stability. On May 6,1896, an airplane model equipped with a steam engine was successfully launched and flown, making three and a quarter turns. Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, attacked the problem of mechanical flight by experimenting with gliders. Their first glider was completed and successfully flown at Kitty Hawk, N. C., in the summer of 1900. The Navy first investigated the possibilities of aviation for naval purposes in 1908when Lieut. G. C. Sweet and Naval Constructor McIntee were detailed as observers forthe test of the Wright plane at Fort Myer, Va. This book provides full history of not only the beginning of aviation and the history of pre-war naval aviation, but also World War Organization and Personnel, U.S. Naval Aircraft and Aviation, the Northern Bombing Group, Marine Corps Aviation, and the Development of “Heavier-than-Air Craft” and the Development of “Lighter-than-Air Craft.”
United States Naval Aviation, 1910–2010, first published by the Naval History and Heritage Command in 2015, is the authoritative work on the history of the U.S. Navy's aviation program, from its beginnings at the turn of the 20th century, through World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, and up to the modern day. This book (Volume One) is a year-by-year, detailed chronology of important events, and is illustrated throughout with hundreds of rarely seen archival photographs. The companion Volume Two is a compendium of statistics and information about naval fliers, aircraft, and programs. United States Naval Aviation, 1910–2010 will serve as an up-to-date, invaluable reference for historians, researchers, and those interested in naval aviation.
This book was donated as a part of the David H. Hugel Collection, a collection of the Special Collections & Archives, University of Baltimore.
Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is easily the most comprehensive history of U.S. Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition— complete with two hundred new photographs—to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book’s publication. Impressed by Germany’s commercial and military Zeppelins, the United States initiated its own airship program in 1915. Naval Air Station Lakehurst in New Jersey was homeport for several of the largest machines ever to navigate the air. The success of the commercial rigid airship peaked in 1936 with transatlantic round trips between Central Europe and the Americas by Hindenburg and by Graf Zeppelin— ending with the infamous fire in 1937. That setback, the onset of war, and the accelerated progress of heavier-than-air technology ended rigid airship development. The Navy continued to use blimps to protect Allied shipping during World War II. Following the war, the Navy persisted with efforts to integrate the airships, but the program was finally discontinued in the early 1960s.
Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy Aviation, this book chronicles Navy aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy’s first aircraft carrier joined the fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how naval aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept wing jets in the period after WW II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft and rigid airships, and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute.