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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77585

First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911


Crewmen preparing the aircraft platform on USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) for Eugene B. Ely's return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California, shortly after he had landed on board. His Curtiss pusher airplane is visible at the platform's forward end (center).
Note that awnings rigged at the platform sides during the landing have now been cleared away.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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31 December 2002