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UNITED STATES NAVAL AVIATION
1910-1995
1922-Contin ued
17 October
The first carrier takeoff in the U.S. Navy
was made by Lieutenant Virgil C. Griffin in a Vought
VE-7SF from
Langley,
at anchor in the York River.
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26 October
Lieutenant Commander Godfrey deC.
Chevalier, flying an Aeromarine, made the first landing
aboard the carrier
Langley
while underway off Cape
Henry.
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14 November
Lieutenant Commander Godfrey deC.
Chevalier, Naval Aviator No.7, died in the Naval
Hospital, Portsmouth, of injuries received in a plane
crash two days before at Lochaven, near Norfolk,
Va.
18 November
Commander Kenneth Whiting, pilot-
ing a PT seaplane, made the first catapult launching
from the carrier
Langley,
while she was at anchor in
the York River.
29 November
Lieutenants Ben H. Wyatt and George
T. Owen, piloting DH-4Bs, arrived at San Diego, Calif.,
and completed a round trip transcontinental flight that
began from the same place on 14 October. The planes
made the trip in short hops, flying a southern route
through Tucson, Ariz., New Orleans, La., and
Pensacola, Fla., on the outward leg; and from
Washington, D.C., through Dayton, Ohio, Omaha,
Nebr., Salt Lake City, Utah, and San Francisco, Calif.,
on the homeward leg; completing the 7,000-mile trip
in about 90 hours of flight. Layovers caused by
mechanical difficulties, bad gasoline, weather and lack
of navigating equipment accounted for most of the
elapsed time.
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An aeromarine practices landings aboard Langley; LCDR
G.
deC. Chevalier made fil:5t landing on October
26,
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