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The British built the first true aircraft carrier in 1918. Earlier aircraft carriers were cruisers with wooden platforms built over their decks for airplane runways. The first landing of a plane on a ship was made by Eugene Ely when he landed on a platform on the cruiser Pennsylvania in 1911.

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