Photo #: NH 77521
Aviator Eugene B. Ely
Standing by his Curtiss pusher biplane on USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), after he landed on board while the ship
was at anchor in San Francisco Bay, California, 18 January 1911.
Note the bulged area in the rubber inner tubes he used as a life
preserver.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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