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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