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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