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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