Eugene Ely made the first takeoff from a ship, flying a Curtiss pusher airplane from a wooden platform on the cruiser USS Birmingham (CL 2), anchored in Hampton Roads, Va., November 14, 1910.
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
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