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NH 77523 Eugene B. Ely

Photo #: NH 77523 Eugene B. Ely
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Title: Eugene B. Ely
Description: Seated in his Curtiss pusher airplane, probably during the San Francisco aviation meet in January 1911. During this meet on 18 January, Ely flew out to USS Pennsylvania and made the first airplane landing on a warship. Sign in the center background reads Tetrazinni Day. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77523
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