Photo #: NH 77591
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Guests and crewmen examine and photograph 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's wife, Mabel, is standing with the photographers in front
of the plane.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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