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NH 90066 USS Pennsylvania

Photo #: NH 90066 USS Pennsylvania
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Title: USS Pennsylvania
Description: (Armored Cruiser # 4) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, in January 1911, after she had been fitted with a temporary wooden deck in preparation for Eugene Ely's airplane landing attempt. Ely landed his Curtiss pusher biplane on board the ship on 18 January, the first airplane landing on a warship. The landing deck, 120 feet long and 30 feet wide, was inclined slightly to help slow the plane as it landed, and had a thirty-degree ramp at its after end. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 90066
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