Photo #: NH 77554
First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910
USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2) steams downriver from
the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, with Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss
pusher airplane on board, at about midday on 14 November 1910.
Ely and his plane made their historic flight later that afternoon.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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