Curtiss Model D - Eugene Ely
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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.
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- Robin MORET
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- 2880*1920
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