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To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Aeronaut; E.G.C.; stand watie; alfa6; Valin; bentfeather; The Mayor; ...

The NC-4 was the first plane to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

"In the D-12, Curtiss had an engine superior to all others...one of the finest aircraft engines ever designed"

ALLAN ROUTT COLLECTION
No. 3306. Curtiss R-6 (AS68563) USAAS
Photograph from Joe Steele collection. Photographed at Fairfield Air International Depot

DH-9A

We salute the daring young beagles
in their flying machines.

51 posted on 08/04/2004 5:10:32 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

To: PhilDragoo

Bump!

52 posted on 08/04/2004 5:24:21 PM PDT by The Mayor ("Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington)

To: PhilDragoo

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Great pics of the early planes.

54 posted on 08/04/2004 6:34:26 PM PDT by SAMWolf (Was today really Necessary?)

To: PhilDragoo

65 posted on 08/04/2004 11:00:38 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

To: PhilDragoo

BTTT!!!!!!!

68 posted on 08/05/2004 3:04:03 AM PDT by E.G.C.

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