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Photo #: NH 77518
Eugene B. Ely
Flies his Curtiss pusher biplane off USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4) to return to land, 18 January 1911. Earlier
in the day he had landed on the ship, which was anchored in San
Francisco Bay, California.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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