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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98131

First airplane takeoff from a warship,
14 November 1910


Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane on the takeoff platform of USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2), just after it was hoisted aboard by a floating crane.
Photograph taken at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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23 October 2002