Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, landing on the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. This is credited as the first successful shipboard landing of an aircraft.
Photograph of a Curtiss Model D aircraft, piloted by Eugene Ely, taking off from the USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco Bay, California, January 18, 1911. A large crowd of sailors watches from the ship.
Photographic postcard of William S. Luckey seated at the controls of a Curtiss Model E Hydro aircraft, Lake Keuka, New York, circa 1912. Inscription: "Starting on a flight in a Hydro Aeroplane on Lake Keuka."Inscription on verso: "With love from…
Photographic postcard of a Curtiss aircraft, piloted by William S. Luckey, in flight over a crowd, Winchester Virginia, September 12, 1912. Inscription: "W. S. Luckey at Winchester, Va Sept 12/12."
Photographic postcard of people looking at a wrecked aircraft, Winchester, Virginia, September 12, 1912.
Inscription: "Wreck of aeroplane at Winchester, Va. Sept 12/12. Engine quit [illegible] landed in railroad cut. / W. S. Luckey."