Photo #: NH 77589
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Crewmen and guests examine Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
on USS Pennsylvania's aircraft platform, during preparations
for his return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California.
Note the photographers (with large box cameras) near the platform's
after end. Sailors nearby are clearing away sandbags used to
help stop the plane as it landed.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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