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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77582
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane approaches the landing
platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4), during
the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship 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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