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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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31 December 2002