NAVAL AIR POWER

MSgt Sutton, T. G (USMC).

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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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