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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77574
First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss pusher biplane on USS Pennsylvania
(Armored Cruiser # 4), which was anchored in San Francisco Bay,
California.
Photographed by Weidner.
Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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