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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 77590

First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911


Guests and crewmen 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.
Ely, wearing rubber inner tubes crossed over his shoulders, is standing in the group in front of the plane.

Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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31 December 2002