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This led in a set of four similar aircraft, the NC-1, NC-2, NC-3 and the NC-4, the U.S. Navy's first series of four huge Curtiss NC flying boats made for the Navy by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. The NC-4 made its first test flight on 30 April 1919. [3] World War I had ended in November 1918, before the completion of the four Curtiss ...
Bob Fernandez was a sailor assigned to the USS Curtiss on Dec. 7, 1941. ... a leg lost in a train accident, and he took solace in drinking. ... divorced, was promoted to piloting small boats ...
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 United States Navy from 1918 through the early 1920s. Ten of these aircraft were built, the most famous of which is the NC-4, the first airplane to make a transatlantic flight.
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Curtiss NC-4 in flight. NC-2 had technical problems, and never began the transatlantic attempt. On 10 May NC-1 and NC-3 reached Trepassey Bay, followed by NC-4 on 15 May. On 16 May the three flying boats took off for the Azores. Aroostook left the next day, and on 23 May reached Plymouth, England. NC-1 and NC-3 had to put down on the sea just ...
Curtiss XP-6 Hawk (fourth P-2, 25–423, converted with Curtiss V-1570-1 engine), of the 27th Pursuit Squadron, is destroyed in crash at Selfridge Field, Michigan, after structural failure in a spin/stall with only 80 flying hours, killing pilot Andrew D. Knox. [70] This airframe had won the Pursuit Plane Race in the 1927 National Air Races ...
In the late afternoon, San Anselmo residents are startled when two low-flying Curtiss P-40C Warhawks, 41-13375 and 41-13454, roar up the valley at just above roof level and crash into the east side of Bald Hill just shy of the peak at 1740 hrs. It was almost dark, was misty and they were under a low cloud ceiling.
[310] Captain William Millican Randolph will die in the crash of a Curtiss AT-4 Hawk on 17 February 1928, and Randolph Field, Texas, will be named in his honor. 22 April Three more aircraft are wrecked at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C., [272] including Airco DH.4, AS-32562, piloted by Harold A. McGinniss, heavily damaged in a forced landing. [311]