Today In History:  30 July  [1935]   --  The first 'blind' landing at sea is made on the USS Langley

Lieutenant Frank Akers of the United States Navy becomes the first person to make a 'blind' landing at sea. His biplane has a hooded cockpit allowing him to see only his controls and instruments. He lands on the USS Langley. 
After WW2 as the commanding officer of the USS Saratoga from 1945 to 1946, he amassed a new world record of 642 carrier landings in a single day.

PHOTO: Akers (in flight helmet) shows Rear Admiral Ernest J. King (wearing civilian hat), the cockpit of the OJ-2 in which he performed the Navy’s first demonstration of a blind landing system intended for use on board aircraft carriers. He made the landing 'under the hood' at College Park, Maryland.

Photo Attribution:  Public Domain  via Wikimedia.