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    The Curtiss NC (Curtiss Navy Curtiss, nicknamed "Nancy boat" or "Nancy") is a flying boat built by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company and used by the...
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    The NC-4 is a Curtiss NC flying boat that was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, albeit not non-stop. The NC designation was derived...
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  • designator NC) Curtiss NC, an American flying boat nicknamed the "Nancy boat" NC-4, the first aircraft to cross the atlantic (with multiple stops) NC, an international...
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    naval aviation pioneer that designed the Curtiss NC-4, the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Curtiss was laid down on 25 March 1938, by the...
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    Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He...
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    Curtiss A-2 (engine) Curtiss OX-5 Curtiss OXX Curtiss C-6 Curtiss D-12 (Curtiss V-1150) Curtiss K-12 Curtiss V-2 Curtiss V-1570 Conqueror Curtiss H-1640...
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    Navy. He and his crew made the first transatlantic flight in the NC-4, a Curtiss NC flying boat. Read was born in Lyme, New Hampshire on March 29, 1887...
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    Woolston to Le Havre in France, but it was short-lived.[citation needed] A Curtiss NC-4 became the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919,...
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    his affiliation with Curtiss using Curtiss Model F flying boats for instruction and eventually co-piloting one of the Curtiss NC flying boats for the...
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    Woolston to Le Havre in France, but it was short-lived.[citation needed] A Curtiss NC-4 became the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919,...
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  • The Curtiss-Wright Corporation is a manufacturer and services provider headquartered in Davidson, North Carolina, with factories and operations in and...
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    The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, is an American-designed and built fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 40s. A contemporary...
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    Samaritan Curtiss A-1 Triad Curtiss BFC Goshawk Curtiss F6C Hawk Curtiss F7C Seahawk Curtiss JN-4D Jenny Curtiss Model F Curtiss NC-4 Curtiss N2C Fledgling...
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    flying expedition began on 8 May 1919 when three Curtiss NC Flying Boats, designated NC-1, NC-3 and NC-4, left Naval Air Station Rockaway, New York, The...
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    patrol and training duties, including escorting a transatlantic voyage of Curtiss NC seaplanes. In 1940, she was recommissioned and operated out of Pearl Harbor...
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    Daimler. V12 engines powered the first transatlantic crossings by the Curtiss NC flying boats (using four Liberty L-12 engines), the first non-stop transatlantic...
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    several years. In 1919, she escorted a major transatlantic flight of Curtiss NC seaplane. Later that year, she was selected to be converted into a seaplane...
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  • Atlantic to recreate the 1919 transatlantic flight of the United States Navy Curtiss NC-4 flying boat before returning to Italy. February 16 – After stops at...
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    The Curtiss SC Seahawk was a scout seaplane designed by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company for the United States Navy during World War II. The existing...
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  • transatlantic flight by aircraft emerged. Between 8 and 31 May 1919, the Curtiss seaplane NC-4 made a crossing of the Atlantic flying from the U.S. to Newfoundland...
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    Wolf F: Grumman TSF B: Boeing NB N2B C: Curtiss NC – skipped to avoid confusion with the pre-1922 Curtiss NC N2C Fledgling E: Piper NE Grasshopper H:...
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  • the Kent coast of England. May 8 – The United States Navy flying boat Curtiss NC-4, piloted by United States Coast Guard pilot Elmer F. Stone under the...
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    fame as one of the two pilots, along with Elmer F. Stone, of the Curtiss NC flying boat "NC-4", the first aircraft to make a transatlantic flight, in May...
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    colours of No. 56 (Fighter) Squadron, while XV486 was scrapped in 1993. Curtiss NC-4 – First transatlantic flight via Azores to Portugal Daily Mail Trans-Atlantic...
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    The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports...
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    The Curtiss JN "Jenny" is a series of biplanes built by the Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and...
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    first Atlantic leg of the first transatlantic flight when he landed his Curtiss NC-4 floatplane in the Bay of Horta in May 1919. In 1921 Dutch seagoing tugboats...
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    Repair to work with Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company on the Curtiss NC float plane and later became vice-president with Curtiss-Wright following his...
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    pickets for the transatlantic flight attempt by three Curtiss NC flying boats. One of the boats—NC-4—completed the flight successfully. Aaron Ward continued...
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    across the ocean for the transatlantic flight of four Curtiss NC flying boats, one of which, NC-4, successfully completed the feat. The destroyer returned...
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