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The Vought VE-7 "Bluebird" was an early biplane of the United States. First flying in 1917, it was designed as a two-seat trainer for the United States Army, then adopted by the United States Navy as its first fighter aircraft. In 1922, a VE-7 became the first airplane to take off from an American aircraft carrier. [1]
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A trio of US Navy Vought VE-7s in flight, circa 1920s This list includes aircraft operated by the United States Navy , United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard . Aviation in the Marine Corps and Coast Guard has historically been subsidiary to naval aviation, with Marine Corps aircraft being procured by the Navy.
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) equipped with a trapeze and a Vought biplane (UO-1), probably a VE-7 Bluebird, for parasite fighter tests. In 1917, the Lewis and Vought Corporation was founded by Lewis, an early aviator, and Vought, a former chief engineer of the Wright Company.
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On 17 October 1922, Lt. Virgil C. Griffin piloted the first plane—a Vought VE-7—launched from her full-length wooden deck. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Though this was not the first time an airplane had taken off from a ship, and though Langley was not the first ship with an installed flight deck, this one launching was of monumental importance to the ...
Common aircraft at the airfield were Vought FU, Vought VE-7 and Curtiss JN-4 Jenny. [1] The first aviation activity at Mare Island took place as early as 1919, when three Mather field Army Air Corps planes landed on and took off from the Marine Parade Ground.
Vought VE-7; Vought V-141; Vought V-173; Vought VE-10; Vought V-326 This page was last edited on 29 August 2016, at 07:35 (UTC). Text is available under the ...