![]() There was also a canvas awning at the end to catch the airplane if the ropes and sandbags were not sufficient. ![]() This time a longer platform was in place, 120 feet, along with ropes and sandbags stretched across to serve as a crude arresting system for landing. The armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania was prepared and anchored in San Francisco Bay. With Ely and the Curtiss team scheduled to fly in San Francisco in January, Chambers made arrangements for the attempt on the west coast. Despite the somewhat harrowing flight off the Birmingham, Ely was ready to try. Ely managed to stay airborne and landed 2 ½ miles away on the nearest land, called Willoughby Spit.Įugene Ely makes the first airplane takeoff from a warship in a Curtiss pusher airplane from the cruiser USS Birmingham at Hampton Roads, VA. The Curtiss rolled off the edge of the platform, settled, and briefly skipped off the water, damaging the propeller. Ely succeeded in making the first take-off from a ship, barely. Ely’s Curtiss Pusher aircraft (similar to the Curtiss D-III Headless Pusher on display at the National Mall Building), equipped with floats under the wings, was hoisted aboard and the ship moved off shore. On November 14, 1910, the light cruiser USS Birmingham was readied at Norfolk, Va., with a wooden platform erected on the bow, approximately 80 feet long. ![]() ![]() If he would supply the ship, would they make the attempt to land on board? Ely was excited at the prospect and agreed. He met Glenn Curtiss and Eugene Ely at the competition and made a proposition. Chambers attended one of the first major flying meetings, being held at Belmont Park, NY, in October 1910. Chambers “to observe everything that will be of use in the study of aviation and its influence upon the problems of naval warfare.” Chambers quickly realized the most important first step to prove that the airplane could operate at sea was to show that landings and take-offs from ships were possible. In the fall of 1910, the Navy identified Captain Washington I. He had natural skills as an aviator and quickly became a well-known pilot with the Curtiss Exhibition Team that toured all around the county. He taught himself to fly in 1910 and never looked back. I only included the basics, mostly.Eugene Ely before landing on the USS Pennsylvania, 18 January 1911Īfter receiving an engineering degree in 1904 from Iowa State University, Ely began a career in the fledging automobile industry as a salesman, mechanic, and racing driver. If I missed anything, or you need to know anything, don't be afraid to ask. So what are you waiting for, download my mod now make your own landing gear now! Note that mirrored parts ALSO mirror FXModuleLookAtConstraint and lights making it impossible to have proper Drag Braces and Lights on Asymmetric Landing Gears.Īnd I spelled Asymmetric wrong in my mod. Here's for the mirroring of the assymetric parts: That's basically gist of the landing gears. It only suggests that it will determine which is front in KSP but the wheel will have different front than the global. It might seem cluttered but the important colors are pink and yellow.ĭo not be confused by the different global orientations of the two models. Put it in Unity and here are the pictures: Here's a concise visual and textual guide to the compilation of my knowledge, hopefully made easier than longer texts and covering almost everything needed to make basic deploying landing gears As I'm studying landing gears for AirplanePlus, I dug through piles of pieces of information in the forums and searching through KSP coding through google as well because of the lack of proper documentary for it.
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