Talk:Naval aviation

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American naval aviation, the strongest sea-based air power on earth, owes its beginnings in large measure to a civilian exhibition pilot who hailed from Iowa, Eugene B. Ely. Ely made the first successful take-off of an aircraft from the deck of a naval vessel in Hampton Roads, Virginia in November 1910. Months later, Ely landed his Curtiss "Golden Flyer" aboard the stern of the cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay. The amazed captain of the Pennsylvania called Ely's feat, "The most important landing since the dove returned to Noah's Ark." Unfortunately, Ely's contribution to naval aviation has been relegated to a footnote in military aviation history, although a display of retired Navy aircraft at Naval Air Station Norfolk is called Ely AirPower Park and a granite historical marker in Newport News, Va., overlooking the waters where Ely first flew in 1910, honors his efforts. Some also believe that CVN-78, a new generation of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, should be named the USS Eugene B. Ely.

--Philip Baird Shearer 13:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Aircraft carriers

I don't think that this article should not duplicate the Aircraft carrier article. Instead it should concentrate on none carrier aspects of naval avation. --Philip Baird Shearer 13:09, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] dwindling?

"Ther are a dwindling number of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters deployed aboard aircraft carriers today."

Does anyone know what this sentence means? To me dwindling means reducing towards zero so this seems to be saying that eventually aircraft carriers won't have any fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters. Cjrother 15:02, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

I did not mean to imply that the number of types of carrier-based aircraft would decrease to zero, merely, that they were (quite clearly) decreasing. If anyone can find a more suitable word, feel free! GSTQ21C 21:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)