Photo #: NH 77501
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane about to touch down 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.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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