Hmmm….I tried to warn you guys…

Anyhow….been trying to cycle about the afternoon check-in of favorite blogs and…the Blogger guys are Tango Uniform. Like the dreaded 404 error “not found”/MIA type TU.

The Salamander, Steeljaw Scribe, and the Capt/Lawyer.

They were there before lunch…it’s now about evening chow time. Maybe we need to call to Quarters for muster, and tell the OOD to review his Williamson Turn procedures.

“XO to the Bridge!”

(psst: get your own domains!)

Steeljaw Scribe commemorates the first arrested landing aboard ship on this day in 1922 with this post.

On October 26, 1922 LCDR Godfrey DeCourcelles Chevalier, USN made the first arrested landing aboard the USS Langley, a converted coal collier (ex-USS Jupiter) and the Navy’s first aircraft carrier, underway off Cape Henry, VA.
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I’d call this the case of “arrested development,” but, it opened an entirely new era in warfare. Certainly, those present on the deck of the USS LANGLEY that day probably could not envison aircraft that could carry more ordnance weight than the gross weight of the aircraft landing and takeoff and land hands off.

A few days ago, I posted a rememberance of the first takeoff from a ship in this post.

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