On this day in 1911, Eugene Ely made the first landing and the first takeoff of a plane from a ship, the USS Pennsylvania specially modified for the occasion by adding a 133ft/40m wooden deck, with a primitive system of strands. As a life vest, Ely was wearing two bicyle tire inner tubes around his shoulders.

2010 , aviation , Curtiss , Dayton , Early Years Hangar , Model D , National Museum of the US Air Force , Ohio , USA

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Robin MORET

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دوشنبه 2 آگوست 2010

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یک شنبه 13 ژانویه 2019

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