Photo #: NH 77523
Eugene B. Ely
Seated in his Curtiss pusher airplane, probably during the San
Francisco aviation meet in January 1911. During this meet on
18 January, Ely flew out to USS Pennsylvania and made
the first airplane landing on a warship.
Sign in the center background reads "Tetrazinni Day".
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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