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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