Flight Training at the United States Naval Academy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467160421)

The United States Naval Academy was founded in 1845 in Annapolis, Maryland, after experience showed that the policy of training naval officers solely through shipboard experience was ineffective. The development of aircraft in the early 20th century was a technological change that impacted the academy. The efforts of naval aviation advocates, led by Capt. Washington I. Chambers, resulted in the Navy acquiring its first aircraft in 1911 and basing them near the US Naval Academy where sufficient land and material resources were available to support flight operations. Later, under Supt. Adm. Louis W. Nulton, aviation entered the curriculum as an element of fundamental naval education, taking a place among major subjects such as seamanship and gunnery. Classroom instruction and indoctrination flights provided all midshipmen with a familiarization in aviation as an important element in their development as naval officers before circumstances forced a shift of training to other facilities by 1962.

Author: Andre J. Swygert
ISBN-10: 1467160423
ISBN-13: 9781467160421
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 11/13/2023
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.56w x 0.11d