Photo #: NH 77609
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane at rest on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), immediately after it landed during the
morning of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San
Francisco Bay, California. Ely (with rubber inner tubes around
his shoulders, and wearing a leather helmet) has dismounted from
the plane and is talking with a man standing in front of the
plane.
Note the sand bags attached to lines behind the plane, used to
stop it after it reached the deck.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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