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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