DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77550
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
A floating crane places Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane
on board USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2). Photographed
at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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