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Show know your mmf NC-4 FIRST AIRCRAFT TO FLY ATLANTIC a f- I IN MA 1919, EIGHT YEARS fZ&l'' 8 BEFORE UNDBERG'S FAMOUS "CROSSING, THREE NAVY NC I f CURJ7SS FLYING BOATS TOOK OFF ' FROM NEWFOUNDLAND ON THE fjSji , FIRST ATTEMPT TO SPAN THE A , llJ p ATLANTIC BY AIR. OF THE THREE, XT'- M 3M THE NC-4, PILOTED BY LT. CMDR. XAjPmrf' A. C. REED, WAS THE ON1.Y PLANE MsM TO COMPLETE THE FLIGHT TO THE f I V " I f?S AZORES. BOTH THE NC-I AND JV llV NC-3 RAN INTO TROUBLE. AFTER r M - IP ,j ' REACHING THE AZORES AND tf&m7P PORTUGAL, THE NC-4 FLEW ON vNa ST Sl 4 TO PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, A LANDING AT THE SPOT WHERE J& ' THE PILGRIMS HAD DEPARTED FOR sriyjT ' THE NEW WORLD 300 YEARS Jr y" BEFORE. wweity |