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The flight across the Atlantic (1919)

Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation · New York city, Issued by the Department of education, Curtiss aeroplane and motor corporation · leaf 28

An illustration from The flight across the Atlantic, 1919, leaf 28 — marked a new era in sea-plane and aeroplane performance. Unfortunately the NC-i was not finishedin time for war service. The armistice,signed November 11, found her skirtingthe Atlantic coast in preliminary trials ofremarkable promise. With the armisticedisappeared, and shall we not say… … DMiRAL Taylors sugges-tion of August 25, 1917,called for a machine ableto fly across the Atlantic.The idea of such acrossing had never lapsedduring the preliminarymonths of design and construction whichpreceded the first flight of the NC-i onOctober 4, 1918. Now, in December,191 8, it revived with…

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