Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 – October 19, 1911) was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing...
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On November 14, 1910, pilot Eugene Burton Ely took off in a Curtiss plane from the bow of Birmingham and later landed a Curtiss Model D on Pennsylvania...
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candidate Dudley Ely (1817–1895), first mayor of South Norwalk, Connecticut Eugene Burton Ely (1886–1911), American aviation pioneer Frederick D. Ely (1838–1921)...
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transatlantic flight (1919) Theodore G. Ellyson - U.S. Naval Aviator No. 1 Eugene Burton Ely - First aviator to successfully takeoff and land from a ship William...
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aircraft from naval vessel was in 1910 when a Curtiss Model D flown by Eugene Burton Ely took off from the USS Birmingham (CL-2) and again on USS Pennsylvania...
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Eugene Burton Ely, born near Williamsburg, was an aviation pioneer Harris Hull, (1909–1993) Brigadier General in the United States Air Force Harry E....
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Curtiss. One of his automobile salesmen, Eugene Ely volunteered to fly Wemme's first Curtiss biplane to Oregon. Ely crashed without serious injury, and soon...
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founded at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. January 18 – Eugene Burton Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco...
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aviator. First woman to receive the DFC by an Act of Congress in 1932. Eugene Burton Ely: first person to make a ship-board landing in an aircraft. Posthumously...
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period, Curtiss employed a number of demonstration pilots, including Eugene Ely, Charles K. Hamilton, J.A.D. McCurdy, Augustus Post, and Hugh Robinson...
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