Next year we'll celebrate...

[criticalmass]

I just realized that we missed it by a day: The 14th of October, 1910.

The day when naval aviation started, with Eugene Ely lifting off the USS Birmingham with a Curtiss biplane.
And from there on the whole story of carriers, flyboys, fighters and capships started. More or less.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

A day and a month. We're already up to November.

 

[criticalmass]

Right. Now something is very wrong with my calendar (except being in this backwater that's several years behind..)

 

[Ghost]

Be shana abaha birushalaim!!

 

[criticalmass]

Visit me in the forest of Jerusalem???

 

[Maj.Striker]

Haha...man there are some funny threads going on right now. I'm not sure I follow though...I thought the dawn of aviation was typically credited to the Wright brothers?

 

[Bandit LOAF]

Dawn of *naval* aviation -- aircraft taking off from ships.

 

[Ripper]

As LOAF contemplates his navel.......