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NH 77568 Aviator Eugene B. Ely

Photo #: NH 77568 Aviator Eugene B. Ely
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Title: Aviator Eugene B. Ely
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Description: With his Curtiss pusher biplane at San Francisco, California, just before or just after his 18 January 1911 flight to USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4). Note his helmet, goggles and life preserver made of rubber inner tubes. Also note the floatation tubes installed under the airplane's wings and the plane's eight-cylinder V water-cooled engine. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77568
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