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USS Shenandaoh Crash 1925


The crash of the USS Shenandoah


 

 

George Bush


Lieutenant George Bush, USNR

 

 

USS Coral Sea

 

Marshall Josip Tito aboard the USS Coral Sea

 

 


Launch of Gemini 11

 

 

 

The XOP-1 autogiro

 

 

RPS Datu Kalantiaw

 

The view of the capasized Philippine
destroyer Datu Kalantiaw

 

 

USS Enterprise 1960

 

USS Enterprise christening ceremony on September 24, 1960
Newport News Shipbuilding

 

 

History

This month in Naval Aviation History:

September 1 – September 7

1925 - CDR John Rodgers and crew of 4 in PN-9 run out of fuel on first San Francisco to Hawaii flight. Landing at sea, they rigged a sail and set sail for Hawaii.

1925 - Crash of rigid airship Shenandoah near Byesville, OH.

1942 - First air evacuation of casualties to hospital ships off shore occurs at Guadalcanal.

1944 - USS Finback (SS-217) rescues Lieutenant (jg) George Bush, USNR (VT-51), shot down while attacking Chichi Jima.

1944 - USS Independence (CVL-22) begins use of specially trained air group for night work. First time that a fully equipped night carrier operates with fast carrier task force.

1944 - First combat employment of a missile guided by radio and television takes place when Navy drone Liberator, controlled by Ensign James M. Simpson in a PV, flew to attack German submarine pens on Helgoland Island.

1946 - USS Franklin Delano Roosevelt (CVB-42) and 4 escorts visit Greece to underscore U.S. support for the Greek Government which faced a Communist insurgency.

1954 - P2V from VP-19 shot down by Soviet aircraft near Swatow, China.

September 8 – September 15

1916 - First demonstration of automatic stabilization and direction gear in aircraft.

1940 - Navy awards contracts for 210 ships, including 12 carriers and 7 battleships.

1944 - Fifth Fleet carrier aircraft begin air strikes on Japanese shipping and facilities at Mindanao, ans Visayas, Philippines.

1952 - USS Coral Sea (CVB-43) took Marshall Josip Tito for a one-day cruise in the Adriatic Sea where he was shown flight operations.

1966 - Launch of Gemini 11, piloted by CDR Charles Conrad Jr., USN and LCDR Richard F. Gordon Jr., USN. Their mission lasted 2 days and 23 hours and included 44 orbits at an altitude of 1368.9 km.. Recovery was by HS-3 helicopter from USS Guam (LPH-9)

September 16 – September 23

1911 - Navigational instruments first requested for naval aircraft.

1917 - Navy Department authorizes establishment of 16 Naval air stations abroad.

1931 - LT Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs on board USS Langley while underway.

1944 - Aircraft from 12 carriers commence 2-day attack against Japanese ships and airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands.

1951 - In Operation Summit, the first combat helicopter landing in history, U.S. Marines were landed in Korea.

1966 - USS Oriskany helicopters rescue 44-men crew of British merchant ship August Moon near Hong Kong.

1981 - USS Mount Hood and Navy helicopters rescue 18 crew members of Philippine Navy frigate, Datu Kalantiaw.

September 24 – September 30

1918 - Ensign David S. Ingalls, USNR, in a Sopwith Camel, shoots down his fifth enemy aircraft, becoming the first U.S. Navy ace while flying with the British Royal Air Force.

1923 - Navy aircraft take first and second places in international Schneider Cup Race.

1931 - Keel laying at Newport News, VA of USS Ranger (CV-4), first ship designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier.

1946 -Lockheed P2V Neptune, Truculent Turtle, leaves Perth, Australia on long distance non-stop, non-refueling flight that ends October 1.

1959 - USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) with Helicopter Squadron 6 and other 7th Fleet units begin 6 days of disaster relief to Nagoya, Japan, after Typhoon Vera.

1959 - Last flight of airshps assigned to the Naval Air Reserve at Lakehurst, NJ takes place.

1960 - First nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), launched at Newport News, VA.