Photo #: NH 77607
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane about to alight on the
landing platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser
# 4), during the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then
anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
Note that Ely has his elevator down to compensate for an unexpected
updraft the plane encountered as it came over the landing platform's
after end.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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