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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77510

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. Crewmen and guests are crowding around the plane, while other Sailors are removing the sandbag and line arresting gear behind it.
Ely and his wife, Mabel, are in the center, standing just in front of the plane's right wing. She is reported to have greeted him by exclaiming "Oh, boy! I knew you could do it."

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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20 December 2002