Photo #: NH 77520
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
Leaves the aircraft platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored
Cruiser # 4), on the return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco,
California, 18 January 1911. Ely had landed on the ship earlier
in the day.
Note boats in the foreground, with several photographers working
from them.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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