We picked up another nice vintage photograph of the US Navy Curtiss Flying Boat NC-4. She was the first aircraft to complete a successful Atlantic crossing in 1919. I like looking at the photos of the flying boat while she is getting maintenance, it must have been a challenge to maintain bot a boat and an airplane, in a saltwater environment. Flying was new, flying boats were new, the engines were new, radios, navigation gear, everything was new.
I lost count at about 12 of all the maintenance and flight crew personnel on the aircraft. She was big, 48 foot hull with a 126 foot upper wingspan. Takeoff weight was around 28,000 pounds.
We are working on a book, the Triumph of the NCs: Centennial. It will include a transcription of the 1921 Triumph of the NCs, old photos that we have collected that date 1919 and newer, and current day photos from the aircraft, which is on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. We hope to publish it this Summer.
Log of NC-4.
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