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USN 902876 Wire Launching System Experimental Test Flight

Wire Launching System Experimental Test Flight
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Title: Wire Launching System Experimental Test Flight
Caption: Lieutenant Ellyson about to make an experimental test flight from an elevated platform along a wire cable in a Navy trial of a wire launching device using a Curtiss single float plane at Hammondsport, New York, 7 September 1911. Left to right: Lieutenant John Towers, USN; Augustus Post; Jim Lamont (a Curtiss mechanic on the ground).
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Catalog #: USN 902876
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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Original Date: Thu, Sep 07, 1911
After this Year: 1910
Before this Year: 1919
Original Medium: BW Photo
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