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1. Preparing for Eugene Ely’s flight off the USS Birmingham, 14 November 1910. Sailors had constructed an 83-foot platform from the bridge rail to the main deck at the bow. Ely’s Curtiss biplane was hoisted aboard, and while the Birmingham got under way, the flier and his mechanics installed the engine and double-checked the plane.