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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77562

First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910


Sailors and civilians crowd around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane as a floating crane places it on board USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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23 October 2002