Weapons

• Article by Peter Kimenai
• Published on July 26th, 2023

American aircraft carriers

September 26, 1910, saw naval officer Captain Washington Irving Chambers named as liaison officer between all parties involved in the operatioonal deployment of aircraft by the US Navy. This appointment by the Secretary of the Navy can be considered the birth of American naval aviation. Cooperation between the US Navy and aircraft manufacturer Glenn Curtiss led on November 14, 1910 to Eugene Ely, a civilian pilot, taking off in a Curtiss aircraft from a wooden ramp constructed on the bow of the light cruiser USS Birmingham (CL-2).