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    Many technologies still in use on modern aircraft carriers, such as catapults to launch aircraft off the flight deck, were first experimented with aboard the USS Langley.  A Douglas DT-2 is seen here with catapult deck gear preparing to launch in 1925. (US Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 72930)

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