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NH 77610 First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911

Photo #: NH 77610 First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
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Title: First airplane landing on a warship, 18 January 1911
Description: 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 History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77610
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