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The First Flight Across The Atlantic

Table of Contents....................................PAGE

Cover and Foreward (5.7 mb)..........................C

The First Flight Across the Atlantic (50 kb).........5

The Dream: (66 kb)...................................7

Mission: Build and fly Navy-Curtiss No. One (1.l mb).8

Commissioning of Seaplane Division One (676 kb)......14

Rockaway, the Beginning of the Flight (1.6 mb).......16

Departure from Halifax (503 kb)......................20

NC-4 drawings/plans (181 kb).........................22

Departure from Trepassey Bay (608 kb)................24

The Flight to the Azores (1.l mb)....................26

Azores to Portugal (986 kb)..........................30

"We are safely across the Pond." (2.2 mb)............32

Vision (1.5 mb)......................................35

NC-4 Restoration (3.0 mb)............................38

Back cover (4.9 mb)..................................BC

NOTE: This monograph, The First Flight Across the Atlantic, has been out of print for many years and paper copies are no longer available through the Naval Aviation History Branch or the Government Printing Office. This electronic version has been placed on the Naval Historical Center's homepage because it is an excellent reference source for information about a early Naval Aviation in general. As an electronic document, there is a compromise between picture quality and the capability of the optical-character-reader software to correctly identify the text in the monograph, which results in the picture quality being less than optimum. Copies of most of the original pictures, however, are available through the Navy Photograph Collection at the National Archives and the Naval Historical Center's Photo Section.

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