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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