Photo #: NH 76510
First airplane landing on a warship,
18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane approaches the landing
platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), in
San Francisco Bay, California, 18 January 1911.
Another armored cruiser is anchored beyond Pennsylvania.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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