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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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20 December 2002