Lt. Theodore G. Ellyson (naval aviator#1, foreground) and Glenn Curtiss pose with the U.S. Navy’s first airplane, the A-1 Triad, on Lake Keuka, Hammondsport, N.Y., in July 1911.
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
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