what countires built the first air craft carrier?
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The Royal Navy had been using a converted cruiser, HMS Hermes, as a seaplane carrier, to conduct trials in 1913. On the outbreak of the First World War a number of cross channel ferries were converted as well. However, another ship was needed, and in 1914 a tramp steamer was requisitioned whilst under construction. This 7,000-ton vessel was turned into the first purpose-built aircraft carrying vessel, HMS Ark Royal in Blyth, Northumberland. She could carry five floatplanes and 2 normal aircraft. The latter would have to return to land after launch, but the seaplanes could take off over the bow and land in the water alongside the carrier, before being lifted back into the hold by crane.\n\nThe ship spent the war in the Eastern Mediterranean and took part in the Dardanelles campaign from February to May 1915.\n\nIn January 1918 two of her Sopwith ABC planes attempted to bomb SMS Goeben.\n\nAfter the war she operated in the Black Sea, transporting aircraft to Batumi to support White Russian forces fighting the Russian Civil War. She was also used in support of the land campaign in Somalia against the Mad Mullah.\n\nDuring 1920 she assisted the withdrawal of White Russian forces from Crimea. She then returned to Britain and was put into reserve at Rosyth for a refit.\n\nShe was recommissioned in September 1922 to take aircraft out to the Mediterranean during the Chanak crisis, before undergoing another refit at Malta in April 1923.\n\nIn December 1934 she was renamed HMS Pegasus to free her name for a new carrier that was then beginning construction.\n\nHMS Pegasus served in only minor roles during the Second World War, and was sold in December 1946. Work began to convert her into a merchant ship named Anita I, but this was halted and she was broken up for scrap in 1949.\n\nSee HMS Ark Royal for other ships of the same name.
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USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76). RONALD REAGAN is the ninth Nimitz class aircraft carrier.
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Das Germans beat Das Brits by almost 2 years! The first aircraft to fly under turbojet power was the Heinkel HE-178. 8-27-1939.
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grumman is a good boat
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Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Ohio, USA, were the first to build a working heavier-than-air aircraft.  The first passenger was Orville Wright.  It all took place in Kittyhawk, 1903.\nThe first military aircraft was delivered to the Army Signal Corps at College Park Airport, Maryland.
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Neil Armstrong was the first.\nBuzz Aldrin was the second.
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The United states Army corp of Engineers was the major builder, with lots of help from panamanieans and americans alike. It was built in the early 1900's (1904-1914)
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There are two under construction, the first being the last of the Nimitz-class carriers, the George H. W. Bush (CVN-77). She is scheduled to be christened in March, 2006, delivered in March 2008, and commissioned in 2009. The Nimitz-class carrier program has been eliminated, to be replaced by the CVN-21 program, a highly advanced supercarrier. The first, designated CVN-78 and as yet unnamed. A ceremonial steel cut was made at the new plant to build all of the CVN-21 class carriers. Construction is expected to begin in 2007, though it depends on funding from Congress. It would then be commissioned in 2015. Possible names are USS-America, USS-Lexington, and USS-Enterprise. The last option seems likely since the current Enterprise is set to decommission the same time as the CVN-78's commissioning.
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1620 - Cornelis Drebbel, a Dutchman, conceived and built an oared submersible. Drebbels' submarine design was the first to address the problem of air replenishment while submerged.
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Allegash Waterway, Maine 1976. \n\nhttp://www.ufocasebook.com/Allagash.html
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With operated-gun turrets and man held machine guns like on the deck sort of like the ones in the movie Pearl Harbor that the African American used. You know, that guy who did the Radio movie as well. There should be at least two air craft even though its not a carrier and a battleship. Two mini man subs.... Sonar, radar, everything. missiles but why do you want to know? Hmm? I looked at your answering history and you're obsessed with war man. Of course the above is just something I made up.
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At 3 am on 6 June 1944, a huge armada of 6,000 ships – including 864 converted merchant ships and 4126 landing craft – set sail for Normandy in 47 convoys.   They carried 200,000 seamen, 185,000 soldiers and 20,000 vehicles.
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Actually, no one really knows who the first boat was made by but here's some useful info about it.\n\nhttp://www.ancientworlds.net/23986
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Asia is where shipping was born, 004 ! \nWell over 1,500 years before the birth of Christ, the ship-builders of Gujerat, in India, were supplying their ships [built of saltwater-resistant timber, at that !] to distant Egypt, Mesopotamia, and even Greece ! \nAnd South Indian kings were travelling the high seas with their naval fleets - and conquering distant kingdoms including the modern-day Jawa, and Sumatra !
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Yes,their aircraft carrier ran aground in hurricane Katrina near Tex-Mex border.Thousands were walking back to Panama beach to catch ride w/sub but some were separated from the group and wound up getting trashed in matamoros during spring break.My sister danced with one of them.They were a trip.
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Columbia (STS-1)\n\nIt was the second shuttle built, (first was the enterprise which was never launched), and by far the heaviest because it had the most instrumentation for measuring all sorts of things as they developed the shuttle program.  It was piloted by Bob Crippin and i think the commanders name was Young, cant remember his first name\n\nIts also the shuttle that burned up upon re-entry after the foam shedding impact on launch last year.
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ERNEST FREDERICK HUBER \n\nvisit this web for more information\n\nwww.modelaircraft.org/museum/bio/Huber.pdf