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The flight across the Atlantic (1919)

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rt from Rockaway boats cut the skyline in a majestic proces-sion. Deliberate, incredible, they turnedeastward and sailed into the farthesthaze. Reach back into the past, you who look,call them dragons, chariots of immortals,ships bewitched by demons—you cannotname the thing they are. You cannot… … jROM Far Rockaway, L. I.,toTrepassey, Newfound-land, is a distance of ap-proximately I GOO nauti-cal or 1150 statute miles.The three NC planeshad all covered this dis-tance by May 15, the NC-4 arriving sixdays after the NC-i and the NC-3. En-gine trouble had made it advisable for herto descend near…

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