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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77511

First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911


Crewmen and guests gathered around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on USS Pennsylvania's aircraft platform, during preparations for his return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California.
Note the Sailor in the foreground, using the ship's after searchlight as a handhold.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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31 December 2002