USS Lexington and Saratoga, were real combatants. Another collier was planned for a conversion; however, it became clear that the larger, faster ships would be more useful. But Langley showed it ...

The USS Langley was built with a large pigeon loft ... of using flush-deck catapults to launch wheeled aircraft from ships, 2 April 1925 (U.S. Navy photo) Langley was not the world’s first ...

This week marks 90 years since the USS Langley was commissioned and helped ... electric propulsion system widely used in Navy capital ships" over the next two decades. Nowadays, of course, we ...

There was a time when carriers were little more than cargo ships with slabs of wood nailed to the top. It may not have been all that impressive, but the USS Langley, America's first converted ...

USS Whipple and USS Edsall, on the morning of February 27. The three ships then headed for the port city of Tjilatjap in Java. Unknown to Langley and its escorts, they had been spotted by a ...

On a late September day just over 92 years ago, a squadron of Martin NBS-1 bombers from Langley Field took off ... bombs on the hulk of the retired battleship USS Alabama, sinking the 11,565 ...

The USS Langley had previously been the USS Jupiter ... With its large cargo holds, it was one of the few Navy ships with enough space to accommodate aircraft. The first of the new Gerald Ford ...

Starting with the USS Langley, CV-1, those two letters have stood ... That’s a practice with all sorts of ships, he said, not just carriers. He said he didn’t think the V stood for anything ...

Emerging from the shipyards at Portsmouth, Virginia, it became the USS Langley, the Navy’s first ... skepticism from traditionalists who favored battleships. S. aircraft carriers.

Though the USS Langley broke new ground in the realm of ... Read more: The 10 Most Legendary Ships Of WW2 Ranked From Worst To Best Circling back Jupiter's days as a collier vessel, the ship's ...