John Rodgers
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Lieutenant John Rogers was an early hydroplane pilot in the U.S. Navy.
In November 1911 made a trial with a hydroplane operating in tandem with the USS Ohio.[1]
On 27 July 1912 he sent first radio message from aircraft to ship, flying a Wright Model B hydroplane over the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and sending the letter "D" in Morse Code to the torpedo boat Bailey.[2]
His brother Calbraith Perry Rogers was also a military pilot. Both brothers trained at the Wright School of Aviation in Dayton.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Jackman & Russell, 1912, Flying Machines, p. 253.
- ↑ Spencer Tucker, Almanac of American Military History, Vol. 1., p. 1231.
- ↑ Goldstone, 2015, p. 305, etc.
- ↑ "Wright Schools of Aviation" advertisement in Aeronautics, January 1913, p, 39.
