This Day in Aviation: Lieutenant Commander Virgil Childers (“Squash”) Griffin, Jr., United States Navy, made the first takeoff from an aircraft carrier of the U. S. Navy.
Vought VE-7 approaching the USS Langley in October 1922. This is the same ship, with the same sort of aircraft, involved in the item noted above.
On the same day, the Army's C-2 dirigible, filled with hydrogen, exploded at Brooks Field, Texas, injuring seven.
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