Although his name would be overshadowed by the success of the Wright Brothers, Eugene B. Ely performed the first aircraft launch off a seafaring vessel in November 1910. Ely used a wooden platform ...

An aerial starboard bow view of the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66) underway.© U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Robert D. Bunge / Public domain The history of naval aviation is ...

This story was submitted to the People's War site by a volunteer from CSV / BBC Radio Nottingham on behalf of John Woolley and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully ...