Do you know your history? (Part XIX)

OhioStatePilot said:
*drumroll please*

It is none other, than the Vought VE-7 Bluebird. The first aircraft to take off from an American aircraft carrier. The Navy was so impressed with the bird, they demanded such numbers that Vought was unable to produce sufficient quantities, which gave birth ot the Naval Aircraft Factory.
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Was that the one out of Washington state? Chopped down all those douglas fir's?
 
OhioStatePilot said:
*drumroll please*

It is none other, than the Vought VE-7 Bluebird. The first aircraft to take off from an American aircraft carrier. The Navy was so impressed with the bird, they demanded such numbers that Vought was unable to produce sufficient quantities, which gave birth ot the Naval Aircraft Factory.
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Excellent sleuthing my friend!

I am impressed. You even got a huge portion of it correct. Don't know if you intended to, but you did.

Now, you have seen all my hints... can you put them together?
 
I meant to correlate the VE-7 to the carrier (USS Langley)... however the rest of the question will have to wait until I finish refueling! :D
 
Heh, I got it off of the aircraft picture and the picture of Langley. There have been two ships commissioned with the Langley name, the first carrier, CV-1 I believe (which was a refit of the USS Jupiter), and I'm not 100% on the second. First carrier led me to think of what aircraft flew off of it. The Aeromarine 39 did fly off of the Langley, but it wasn't the first and therein lies my error. When I reapproached it from that angle, I produced the VE-7! The statue, I'm not sure of at all!

Edit: Nor am I sure of the guy in the picture...
 
The second guy is Eugene Ely, he flew the first airplane from the deck of a warship.

I'm not seeing where the Collier Trophy fits yet.

Unless it's as simple as Glenn Curtiss being the first recipient.
 
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