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Line 5: A '''tailhook''', also '''arresting hook''' or '''arrestor hook''', is a device attached to the [[empennage]] (rear) of some military [[fixed wing]] [[aircraft]]. The hook is used to achieve rapid [[deceleration]] during [[Modern US Navy carrier air operations#Touchdown\|routine landings]] aboard [[aircraft carrier]] [[flight deck]]s at sea, or during emergency landings or aborted takeoffs at [[Arresting gear#Land-based systems\|properly equipped]] airports. ==History== On January 18, 1911, [[Eugene Burton Ely\|Eugene Ely]] landed his Curtiss pusher airplane on a platform on the [[armored cruiser]] [[USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4)\|USS ''Pennsylvania'']] anchored in [[San Francisco Bay]]. Ely flew from the Tanforan airfield in [[San Bruno, California]] and landed on the ''Pennsylvania'', which was the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.<ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/ev-1910s/ev-1911/ely-pa.htm Accessed February 8, 2007.]</ref><ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/pers-us/uspers-e/eb-ely.htm Accessed February 8, 2007.]</ref> This flight was also the first ever using a [[tailhook]] system, designed and built by circus performer and aviator [[Hugh Armstrong Robinson\|Hugh Robinson]].<ref name="proceedings"/> Ely told a reporter: "It was easy enough. I think the trick could be successfully turned nine times out of ten." ==Description==