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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77509

First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911


Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), just after his successful landing during the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
Ely is in the lower left, wearing rubber inner tubes around his shoulders.
Note the photographer working from the ship's after searchlight platform, in the foreground. Sailors are beginning to remove the sandbag and line arresting gear.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 December 2002