Photo #: NH 77610
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), shortly after it landed during the morning
of 18 January 1911. The ship was then anchored in San Francisco
Bay, California.
The officer in the lower left is Lieutenant John Rodgers, who
would become an airplane pilot a few months later, the second
Naval Aviator.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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