Photo #: NH 77568
Aviator Eugene B. Ely
With his Curtiss pusher biplane at San Francisco, California,
just before or just after his 18 January 1911 flight to USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4).
Note his helmet, goggles and life preserver made of rubber inner
tubes.
Also note the floatation tubes installed under the airplane's
wings and the plane's eight-cylinder "V" water-cooled
engine.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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