DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77508
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
Is readied for take off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored
Cruiser # 4) for the return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco,
California, 18 January 1911.
Note that the ship's aircraft platform has now been cleared of
objects and people.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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