Photo #: NH 77504
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Crewmen and guests look over Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
on USS Pennsylvania's aircraft platform, soon after it
landed on board.
Note the Sailor using a camera, in left center.
The awnings at the platform's edge were rigged as a safety precaution,
to prevent the plane from going over the side if it went off
the platform while landing.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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