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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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20 December 2002