1928-Contin ued
Schilt gets medal of honor USMC 521201
11 January The first takeoff and landing on Sara-
toga was made by her Air Officer, Commander Marc
A. Mitscher in a UO-l.
27 January Los Angeles (ZR-3) made a successful
landing on Saratoga at sea off Newport, R.I., and
remained on board long enough to transfer passengers
and take on fuel, water and supplies.
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1 February Joint Army-Navy nomenclature for air-
craft engines became effective whereby standard type
names were assigned to engines based upon the cubic
inches of piston displacement-to the nearest ten.
Under this scheme, the Vee type Curtiss D-12 engine
received the standard type name Curtiss V-1150 and
the air-cooled radial J-5 Whirlwind became the first
Wright R-790.
27 February Commander Theodore C. Ellyson, the
first Naval Aviator, and Lieutenant Commander Hugo
Schmidt and Lieutenant Rogers Ransehounsen, crashed
to their deaths in a Loening amphibian in Chesapeake
Bay while on a night flight from Norfolk, Va., to
Annapolis, Md.
28 February An order was issued limiting the
application of standard type names for aircraft
engines to air-cooled engines of recent design. For
example, the standard type name, Curtiss V -1150,
was abolished and this engine was reassigned its ear-
lier D-12 designation. On the other hand, the desig-
nation Wright R-790 was retained with provisions for
use of R-790-A to indicate a major modification while
earlier models of this engine kept the old designa-
tions, J-2, J-3 and J-4.
28 February The contract for the XPY-1 flying boat
was issued to the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.
This aircraft, which was designed for alternate installa-
tion of two or three engines, was the first large mono-
plane flying boat procured by the Navy, and was the
initial configuration which evolved into the PBY
Catalina.
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