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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