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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