US Navy Floatplanes
US Navy Floatplanes (Aircraft 203) By All Adcock
Publisher: Squadron/Signal 2006 | 52 Pages | ISBN: 0897475062 | PDF | 11 MB
Publisher: Squadron/Signal 2006 | 52 Pages | ISBN: 0897475062 | PDF | 11 MB
Before the advent of radar and other electronic devices aboard warships, the jobs of seeking out the enemy and spotting of naval gunfire fell to the floatplane scouts These small one- and two-seal catapult-launched aircraft served aboard US. Navy ships as the eyes of the fleet until mid-1949. The father of the U.S. Navy floatplane is generally considered to be Glenn U Curtiss, who was the first aviator to fly an aircraft off a ship and the first to land on a ship. In January 1911 he became the first American to land a floatplane, one of his own design, on water (a Frenchman had performed the same feat a year earlier). Aircraft designed by the Curtiss Aircraft Company flew off u.s. Navy ships from 1911 to 1949. Other notable early designers of aircraft lor the u.s. Navy were Donald Douglas and Chance Vought.
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