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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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20 December 2002