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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77548

First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910


A floating crane lifts Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane from the Norfolk Navy Yard pier, Virginia, in preparation for placing it on board USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), shortly before the flight.
Birmingham is partially visible at left, behind the crane.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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23 October 2002