Photo #: NH 77565
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
Flying off aircraft platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored
Cruiser # 4), 18 January 1911. Earlier in the day Ely had landed
on the ship's deck, the first time an airplane alighted on a
warship's deck.
Pennsylvania was then anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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