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1. The first flight to a “carrier deck” was accomplished by Eugene Ely in San Francisco Bay on 18 January 1911, when he landed on the slightly inclined wooden platform, 30 feet wide and 120 feet long, which had been built on the stern of the USS Pennsylvania for the occasion. A ramp sloped downward at a 30-degree angle at the after end of the platform. Twenty-two years later, Ely received posthumously the Distinguished Flying Cross.