'One hundred years ago, the U.S. Navy Flying Boat NC-4 became the first aircraft to fly the Atlantic,' Kent Lewis writes. 'Airplane manufacturer and flying boat inventor Glenn Curtiss had developed the NC (for Navy Curtiss) to fly across the Atlantic in order to avoid enemy submarines. Curtiss built one of the first four flying boat hulls and had Nos. 2 and 3 built by George Lawley & Son and No. 4 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company (HMCo.).
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