Photo #: NH 77551
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane rests on the flying-off
platform built over the foredeck of USS Birmingham (Scout
Cruiser # 2).
Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly
before the flight. The floating crane that had lifted the airplane
onto the ship is visible at the extreme left.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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