Photo #: NH 77608
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane lands aboard USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), during the morning of 18 January 1911.
The ship was then anchored in San Francisco Bay, California.
The plane has now caught the first lines of the arresting gear,
and sandbags at the ends of the lines are being pulled along
the landing platform as the plane moves forward.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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