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[[newspaper clipping]] 2 SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE WRIGHT AVIATOR SETS NEW MARK Philip O. Parmelee Circles the Field in the Longest American Flight. AUDIENCE CHEERS EFFORT. PARMELEE BREAKS AMERICAN ENDURANCE HERO OF AIR GIVEN MEDAL FOR CRUIS[[?]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] PAGE 6 THE EVENING TRIBUNE, Sun U. S. SERVICE First Plane Lands on Pennsylvania [[?Deck]] In S. F. Bay, 26 Years Ago 1911 Hop Herald Of Big Strides In Navy Air Twenty-six years ago this week, the first plane flight to and from the deck of a man-o-war was made by Eugene Ely, in 1911, at San Francisco bay. The old cruiser Pennsylvania was the scene. A crude platform had been erected by the ship's carpenter gang on the warcraft's stern, and the civilian pioneer pilot, Ely, and navy officers who made this epochal landing and take-off possible had visions of a great future for naval aviation resulting from it. Today, aboard the dreadnaught Pennsylvania, flagship of the United States fleet, now at San Francisco, The Associated Press reports, it is revealed vividly how the brightest visions of those pioneers of the air have been surpassed in naval flight operations. Staff officers are mapping lans for spring maneuvers of the fleet in which some 500 planes will operate at sea. There will be more than three million miles of flight. There will be more than a thousand catapultings of seaplanes from fighting ships and returns at sea to the ships. There will be several thousand take-offs and landings by land-geared fighting machines of the aircraft carriers. Today's navy fighting ships of the air are strange monsters in speed and power compared with the little biplane that ely flew to and from the old cruiser in San Francisco bay. The anniversary of Ely's exploit shows tremendous strikes in the quarter century of naval aviation. Speeds Twice as Great Aboard the dreadnaught Pennsylvania are four seaplanes. They are capable of speeds more than twice as great as Ely's plane. From the turntable catapults, all four can be shot and returned to the ship in less time than it took Ely to turn his plane and take-off from the old cruiser Pennsylvania. All battleships and cruisers carry planes and catapults. Aboard the giant aircraft carriers Saratoga, Lexington and Ranger, a hundred planes can take off and return aboard each craft in less time than Ely required for his round-trip flight. Some of the fighting speedsters of the air can travel three times as fast as did ely's craft. A few [[?]] [[image - photograph of biplane on ship]] [[image - photograph of biplane taking off from ship]] [[caption]] Two views of the first plane flight to and from the deck of a navy ship, made Jan. 18, 1911 by Eugene Ely, protege of Glenn Curtiss, conducting a flying school on North Island at the time. Although Ely had taken off from the deck of the U.S.S. Birmingham on the east coast a short time before, his landing on the deck of the old cruiser Pennsylvania was the first of its kind. Ely is shown, upper, in his flying togs just after landing on the Pennsylvania. Lower, the take off. [[/caption]] [[\newspaper clipping]]
