Photo #: NH 77583
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), just after his successful landing during
the morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in
San Francisco Bay, California.
Ely has now walked out of view, to the left.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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