Photo #: NH 77609
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane at rest on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), immediately after it landed during the
morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San
Francisco Bay, California. Ely (with rubber inner tubes around
his shoulders, and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from
the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the
plane.
Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to
stop it after it reached the deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77502
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely (with rubber inner tubes around his shoulders)
walks away from his Curtiss pusher biplane, just after his successful
landing on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), during
the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in
San Francisco Bay, California.
Note the sand bag and line arresting gear behind the plane, and
the canvas barriers rigged on the landing platform in front of
it.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77583
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), just after his successful landing during
the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in
San Francisco Bay, California.
Ely has now walked out of view, to the left.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77509
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), just after his successful landing during
the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in
San Francisco Bay, California.
Ely is in the lower left, wearing rubber inner tubes around his
shoulders.
Note the photographer working from the ship's after searchlight
platform, in the foreground. Sailors are beginning to remove
the sandbag and line arresting gear.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77510
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), just after his successful landing. Crewmen
and guests are crowding around the plane, while other Sailors
are removing the sandbag and line arresting gear behind it.
Ely and his wife, Mabel, are in the center, standing just in
front of the plane's right wing. She is reported to have greeted
him by exclaiming "Oh, boy! I knew you could do it."
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77610
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), shortly after it landed during the morning
of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San Francisco
Bay, California.
The officer in the lower left is Lieutenant John Rodgers, who
would become an airplane pilot a few months later, the second
Naval Aviator.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77584
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Ship's crewmen and guests gather around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss
pusher biplane, shortly after he successfully landed on board
USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4). Some of the Sailors
are removing the sandbag and line arresting gear behind the plane.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77503
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Ship's crewmen and guests looking over Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss
pusher biplane, shortly after his successful landing on USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4). Some of the Sailors are removing the sandbag
and line arresting gear behind the plane.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 77504
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Crewmen and guests look over Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
on USS Pennsylvania's aircraft platform, soon after it
landed on board.
Note the Sailor using a camera, in left center.
The awnings at the platform's edge were rigged as a safety precaution,
to prevent the plane from going over the side if it went off
the platform while landing.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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