Photo #: NH 77569
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Crewmembers of merchant sailing ships at San Francisco, California,
watching during the morning of 18 January 1911, as aviator Eugene
Ely landed his Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), which was anchored off the city.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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