Eugene Burton Eli lands an airplane on a ship.

https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/18-january-1911/

This is the plane landing, the prop is in back. Arresting hook to catch on ropes between pairs of sandbags “precisely weighed so that the Curtis would not slew to one side” 🙂


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