The triumph of the N. C.'s
A 1920 Doubleday, Page account of the U.S. Navy NC flying boats and their 1919 transatlantic flight, written by the officers who built and flew them — George Westervelt, Holden Richardson and Albert Read — for a general American readership. The forty halftone photographs show biplane hulls on slipways, wing struts and wire bracing, engine nacelles, hangars and crowds on the shore, offering high-contrast machine geometry, silhouetted rigging patterns and grainy documentary skies.
