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NH 77562 First airplane takeoff from a warship, 14 November 1910

Photo #: NH 77562 First airplane takeoff from a warship, 14 November 1910
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Title: First airplane takeoff from a warship, 14 November 1910
Description: Sailors and civilians crowd around Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher airplane as a floating crane places it on board USS Birmingham (Scout Cruiser # 2). Photographed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, shortly before the flight. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77562
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