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	Flying boat Information
		Flying boats were among the largest aircraft of the first half of the 20th century.
		The flying boat NC-4 was the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919.
		The largest flying boat of the war was the Blohm und Voss Bv 238 which was also the heaviest plane to fly during the Second World War.
	www.bookrags.com /Flying_boat (744 words)

	Flying boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and alight upon water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage).
		Flying boats aircraft were among the largest aircraft of the first half of the 20th century; their ability to alight on water allowing them to break free of the size constraints and general lack of land based runways.
		The flying boat NC-4 was the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919.
	flying-boat.borgfind.com (673 words)

	Flying boat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and alight upon water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage).
		Flying boats aircraft were among the largest aircraft of the first half of the 20th century ; their ability to alight on water allowing them to break free of the size constraints and general lack of land based runways.
		The largest flying boat of the war was the Blohm und Voss Bv 238 which was also the heaviest plane to fly during the Second World War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flying_boat (669 words)

	Flying boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A flying boat is an aircraft with a hull-shaped fuselage designed to take off and land on water.
		The military value of flying boat s was quickly recognized, and they were utilized by various nations in tasks from anti- submarine patrol to maritime search and rescue.
		The age of the flying boat s was largely at an end, and the massive plane was seen as a dinosaur from a bygone era.
	www.portaljuice.com /flying_boat.html (349 words)

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		Flying a distance of 4,200 miles, L59 had carried a payload of fifteen tons of cargo, along with 22 crew and passengers on board.
		Flying from Friedrichshaven, she took a southern route to Lakehurst to avoid the westerly headwinds and bad weather of the most northerly atlantic routes.
		Many flying boats could carry significant numbers of passengers, but their useful ranges became very limited if the boat was laden with passengers.
	113group.com /historygateway/aat1919.htm (12619 words)

	Naval Aviation in World War I
		The other NC boats were not so fortunate; both had lost their bearings in thick fog and landed at sea to determine their positions.
		The only one of three NC boats to reach the Azores by air, the NC-4 arrived the afternoon of the 17th, and after a layover of 10 days, covered the last leg of the crossing to Lisbon.
		In addition to an unobstructed "flying-on and flying-off deck", stowage space for aircraft and facilities for repair of aircraft, the new plans provided for catapults to be fitted on both forward and after ends of the flying-off deck.
	www.history.navy.mil /branches/avchr2.htm (9151 words)

	NC-4. Who is NC-4? What is NC-4? Where is NC-4? Definition of NC-4. Meaning of NC-4.
		The NC-4 was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
		In May of 1919 the NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat made the crossing over 19 days with multiple stops along the way.
		Designs were started for an airplane capable of flying from the United States to Europe on its own power.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/NC-4 (334 words)

	Flying boat - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A flying boat is a aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage).
		Flying boats aircraft were among the largest aircraft of the first half of the 20th century ; their ability to land on water allowing them to break free of the size constraints and general lack of land based runways.
		The Hughes H-4 Hercules in development in the U.S. during the war was even larger than the Bv238, but it did not fly until 1947.The " Spruce Goose ", as the H-4 was nicknamed, was the largest flying boat ever to fly.
	www.free-definition.com /Flying-boat.html (659 words)

	Flying boat - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Where land-based aircraft lacked the range to travel great distances and required airfields to land, flying boats could stop at small island or coastal stations to refuel and resupply.
		The age of the flying boats was largely at an end, and the massive plane was seen as a dinosaur from a bygone era.
		True flying boats have largely been replaced by seaplanes and amphibian aircraft.
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Flying_boat (365 words)

	Nc
		NC NC may stand for: Ireland Network computer country code) computational complexity theory no connection on a schematic...
		NC-4 The NC-4 was the first flying boat made the crossing over 19 days with multiple stops along the way.
		NC (complexity) In parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/nc.html (92 words)

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		Typical of the Curtiss flying boats developed during this period were the twin-engine H-16 and the HS-2L, a scaled-down single-engine version of the H-16.
		The NC boats are discussed here not so much for their advanced design features but rather because one of their number, the NC-4, was the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and thus secured for the type a permanent place in the annals of aviation history.
		The origins of the NC flying boat can be traced to a request issued by the British in 1917 for a long-range patrol aircraft for antisubmarine operations over the open ocean.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-468/ch8-3.htm (2325 words)

	3) Welcome to the Rockaway Naval Air Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Flying Boat type F-5-L number 3612 was transferred from Rockaway NAS to the Navy Yard.
		Flying boat N9 2622 broke free from it's moorings and was damaged at Atlantic City.
		Flying boat 3596 (type F-5-L) made a flight under extremely bad flying conditions up the Hudson River to Poughkeepsie NY on the occasion of a celebration at that place.
	www.geocities.com /fort_tilden/rnas.html (2686 words)

	List of years in aviation - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It flies 25 km (15 miles) from Paris to Gonesse and is destroyed by frightened peasants.
		Percy Pilcher flies various gliders and is close to completing a powered machine when he is tragically killed when his glider crashes at Stanford Hall, England after a tail strut fails.
		September 23, the Peruvian Geo Chavez flies the Blériot-monoplane over the Alps from Brig (Switzerland) to Domodossola (Italy) reaching a height of 2200 metres, but was killed in a crash landing.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /l/li/list_of_years_in_aviation.html (7225 words)

	FlightSim.Com Review: Flying Boats DVD
		As if that isn’t enough, there are some clips of the huge Blohm and Voss BV 222 and 238 boats; the BV 238 was the largest flying boat built during the war and it is probably fortunate that the prototype was destroyed in a strafing attack by Mustangs in 1944.
		The War Boats has more gee-whiz quality to it than the first volume in the series, but if it has a failing, it is that the narrative doesn’t do much to explain where all these big flying boats came from.
		The concentration on US flying boats also means that some of the most interesting planes, such as the Dornier X and some of Caproni’s wilder ideas don’t get an airing, but I guess the editors had to draw the line somewhere.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/review/flyboat/flyboat.htm (1678 words)

	Towers, Lieut. John H (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The distance covered was approximately 169 miles and the actual flying time wa three hours and five minutes, so that the machine was driven at an average speed of nearly fifthy miles an hour.
		The flight was made in what is known as the flying boat, a product of the Curtiss factory, which was recently added to the equipment at the aviation camp at Annapolis.
		The other NC boats were not so fortunate; both had lost their bearings in thick fog and landed at sea to determine their positions.
	home.earthlink.net /~ralphcooper/biotower.htm (977 words)

	Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Flying Boat - USA
		The NC-4 was one of four NC (Navy-Curtiss) flying-boats, built during World War I originally to provide patrol cover for American shipping in the Atlantic against the attentions of German U-boats.
		Nevertheless, the three-engined installation was considered inadequate for transatlantic flying, and completion of the second, third and fourth aircraft was delayed while a fourth engine was included in the design.
		After two days in Lisbon, where all three NC crews were generously feted by the Portuguese government and the city of Lisbon, NC-4 continued her flight to Plymouth, England, to the port whence the Pilgrim Fathers had left for America 299 years before.
	www.aviation-history.com /navy/nc4.html (2486 words)

	Tank tests of a model of the NC flying-boat hull - N.A.C.A. model 44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A 1/7.06 full-size model of the NC-type hull was tested in the N.A.C.A. tank by both the general method and the specific or free-to-trim method.
		The results of the tests are given in curves plotted as non dimensional coefficients and are compared with the test results of N.A.C.A. model 11-A. The NC model (N.A.C.A. model 44) shows higher resistance than model 11-A at hump speed but lower resistance at high speeds.
		Model 44 has a higher best trim angle at the jump and a lower maximum positive trimming moment than model 11-A. At high speeds the best trim angle and the trimming moments of the two models are approximately the same.
	naca.larc.nasa.gov /reports/1936/naca-tn-566 (150 words)

	Tanks test of a model of the hull of the Navy PB-1 flying boat - N.A.C.A. Model 52 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A model of the hull of the Navy PB-1 flying boat was tested in the N.A.C.A. tank as part of a program intended to provide information regarding the water performance of hulls of flying boats of earlier design for which hydrodynamic data have heretofore been unavailable.
		A free-to-trim test according to the specific method was also made for the design load and take-off speed corresponding to those of the full-scale flying boat.
		The resistance obtained from the fixed-trim test was found to be about the same as that of the model of the NC flying-boat hull, and greater at the hump but smaller at high speeds than that of a model of the Sikorsky S-40 flying-boat hull.
	naca.larc.nasa.gov /reports/1936/naca-tn-576 (189 words)

	FIRST TO FLY THE ATLANTIC OCEAN
		The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat was designed, during World War I, as a long-range anti-submarine aircraft and it became the first aircraft to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, in 1919, though it did so in several stages.
		Ten Navy Curtiss flying boats were built and two of them, the NC-1 and the NC-3, also attempted a transatlantic crossing, but they did not complete their flights.
		The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat on the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio.
	roynagl.topcities.com /nc4.htm (639 words)

	NC-4 - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The NC-4 was the fourth of the Navy's initial series of four large Curtiss NC Flying Boats constructed for the Navy by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.
		The NC-4 was originally in the company of two other NC Flying Boats, the NC-1 and the NC-3.
		They left Long Island, New York, then stopped in Newfoundland before leaving on 16 May for the longest leg of their journey, the flight to the Azores, reached 15 hours later.
	www.iridis.com /NC-4 (432 words)

	Heroes by Any Definition
		The long-distance flying boat emerged as the major technical advance for the Navy, with aircrews flying patrols in Curtiss-built boats from England, Ireland, and France.
		They were difficult and demanding to fly, and Navy and Marine pilots often found themselves in uncharted territory, flying with courage and intuition in a regime that eventually became the province of specially trained, experienced test pilots.
		To fly higher, farther, and faster than ever, to explore unknown regions, to risk one's life and be the first to accomplish the "impossible" brought accolades and recognition unique to the era.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,NI_Heroes_1203,00.html (2643 words)

	SHORT C CLASS FLYING BOAT
		At that time flying boats, rather than land-based aircraft, were used for overseas air travel, for they have proven their effectiveness in 1919, when the U.S. Navy flying boat NC-4 made the first successful aerial crossing of the Atlantic.
		The porpoise-shaped Short flying boat was a handsome and airworthy craft that extended the United Kingdom airmail service to the farthest corners of the empire.
		Short"C" class flying boats were used throughout the war, and several remained in operation until 1947, when they were withdrawn from service.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/FLYINGBOAT.htm (506 words)

	Amazon.com: China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats: Books: Robert L. Gandt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Their medium-range flying boats landed at sea, were hoisted on the ships, refueled, then catapulted off for the next leg.
		Flying boats were chosen for the first long-range air services for a simple reason: Airfields with long, paved runways didn't exist.
		Although small flying boats were successful with short hops (including routes along the east coasts of the Americas) by the early '30s, the true ocean-spanning China Clipper did not fly until 1935.
	www.amazon.com /China-Clipper-Great-Flying-Boats/dp/0870212095 (1655 words)

	John Towers, 18??-1955
		Most of the pilots who had taken up the practice of flying over water were on the entry list - a total of fifteen names.
		Antony Jannus, Hugh Robinson, and Tom Benoist entered Benoist flying boats, each with a Hall-Scott motor of 100 hp.
		The only one of three NC boats to reach the Azores by air, the NC-4 arrived the afternoon of the 17th, and after a layover of 10 days, covered the last leg of the crossing to Lisbon.
	www.rcooper.0catch.com /etowers.htm (1404 words)

	Milestones in Aviation in the Aviation History Encyclopedia
		Late June or early July: Sir George Cayley's coachman became the world's first aeroplane pilot, flying a glider designed by his employer for 423ft (130m) across a valley in Brompton, Yorkshire.
		December: After years of dedicated research and development, the brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright fly 300 yards in a more practical aeroplane.
		May: A US Navy flying boat NC-4 flew by short stages from Long Island, New York to Lisbon, Portugal over 19 days.
	www.usairnet.com /encyclopedia/Milestones_in_aviation.html (574 words)

	Your complete boating guide - Flying Boat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Flying Tankers Inc. operates Martin Mars aircraft as water-bombers in the business of aerial firefighting and fire suppression dropping water or...
		In 1992 the famous Hughes Flying Boat "Spruce Goose" was forced to move.
		Curtis and the Flying Boat By William Wraga.
	www.complete-boating.com /Flying-Boat/index.php (1122 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Aviation History \| Aviation History: Three U.S. Flying Boats Were the First to Fly Across the Atlantic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The idea of a transatlantic flight by flying boat was proposed as early as 1914 and backed by philanthropist Rodman Wanamaker, who had asked Towers and Lieutenant J.C. Porte of the Royal Navy to pilot an aircraft designed by Glenn Curtiss.
		Curtiss had supplied the British and Russians with flying boats throughout the war and was among the premier designers and manufacturers of the type.
		The NC flying boat had originally been designed for transatlantic flight, and that goal was revived during the winter of 1918-1919, when naval officials made plans to fly to Europe in May 1919.
	www.historynet.com /ahi/bl-flying-boats (1457 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In May of 1919 the NC-4, a United States Navy flying boat, made the crossing over 19 days with multiple stops along the way.
		Designs were started for a fixed-wing aircraft capable of flying from the United States to Europe on its own power.
		The NC-4 was the fourth of the Navy's initial series of four large Curtiss NC Flying Boats constructed for the Navy by the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=NC-4 (542 words)

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