Stanley Paine: Curtiss NC-4

Artist: Stanley Paine
1934 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1988
Image Size: 15.5 by 18 inches
Overall Size: 20 by 22.75 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

The Curtiss NC-4 featured in this artwork made aviation history in 1919 by becoming the first aircraft to make a North Atlantic crossing. Four United States Navy-Curtiss flying boats -- NC-1/2/3/4 -- were built during World War I, with the NC-1 making its first flight on October 4, 1918. When the war was virtually over, it was decided to use the Curtiss flying boats in an attempt to fly across the North Atlantic Ocean in stages. A route via Newfoundland and the Azores -- 800 miles off the coast of Portugal -- was approved, and preparations began for the epic flight. At about 6:00 a.m. on May 16, 1919, three Navy-Curtiss flying boats (NC-1, -3, and -4) took off from Trepassy, Newfoundland, and headed for the Azores. NC-1 and NC-3 had mishaps en route, but NC-4 kept going and landed at Horta in the Azores on May 15, 1919. Three days later, the airplane flew into Porta Delgada, and on May 27, it took off for the final trans-Atlantic stage of the journey to Lisbon, Portugal. Later, on May 31, 1919, the NC-4 continued on to Plymouth, England, thus completing the 4,320 mile journey in a flying time of 53 hours, 58 minutes. Eventually, after a triumphal return to the United Sttes, the NC-4 was handed over to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., in whose National Air and Space Museum it remains to this day.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® Europa First Day Cover Collection Great Airplanes of Europe produced in 1988.

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