{"id":1977,"date":"2026-01-18T00:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:24","slug":"an-airplane-landed-for-the-first-time-on-a-ship-the-uss-pennsylvania-in-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"Airplane Landed for the First Time on a Ship, the USS Pennsylvania, in 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11674\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11674\" class=\"wp-image-11674 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Airplane-on-Ship-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Airplane Landing on a Ship<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Airplane landed for the first time on a ship, the<em> USS Pennsylvania<\/em>, in 1911<\/strong>. Eugene B. Ely, the pilot, landed his Curtiss pusher on a platform built on the ship, located in San Francisco Bay. A tailhook system, designed by Hugh Robinson, successfully slowed and stopped the plane. Older children can learn more about the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>fascinating<\/strong> <\/span>landing and the short life of the pilot at: <a href=\"https:\/\/airandspace.si.edu\/stories\/editorial\/eugene-ely-and-birth-naval-aviation-january-18-1911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugene B. Ely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplane landed for the first time on a ship, the USS Pennsylvania, in 1911. Eugene B. Ely, the pilot, landed his Curtiss pusher on a platform built on the ship, located in San Francisco Bay. A tailhook system, designed by Hugh Robinson, successfully slowed and stopped the plane. Older children can learn more about the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1977' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4510,5053,5056,5055,5059,5052,5057,5058,5054],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4510","tag-airplane-landed-for-the-first-time-on-a-ship","tag-curtiss-pusher","tag-eugene-b-ely","tag-hugh-robinson","tag-january-18","tag-san-francisco-bay","tag-tailhook-system","tag-uss-pennsylvania","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29025,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/29025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}