Thursday, January 18, 2007
This Day in Naval History
On this day in 1911, the first aircraft landing on board a ship, USS Pennsylvania, by pilot Eugene Ely, took place. From tiny acorns great oaks grow. However, if nuclear missiles, or even cruise missiles, have made the aircraft carrier vulnerable and therefore obsolete, what is the new ship type that will take over, just as the carrier took over from the battleship in WWII? I'm not smart enough to know.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:28 AM 
