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NH 77592 Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane

Photo #: NH 77592 Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
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Title: Eugene B. Ely's Curtiss pusher biplane
Description: Takes off from USS Pennsylvania (Armored Cruiser # 4) on the return flight to Tanforan field, San Francisco, California, 18 January 1911. Ely had landed on the ship earlier in the day. Note the schooner under sail in the distance. Photograph from the Eugene B. Ely scrapbooks. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 77592
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