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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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31 December 2002