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It is the NC-4, a Curtiss NC flying boat. However, the trip took 19 days, and the aircraft taxied on the water for hundreds of miles.
Two weeks later, on 14 June 1919, British pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown took off from Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight, which took 15 hours and 57 minutes.
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CoachAlcock and Brown ( Two RAF pilots) l9l9. craft used a Vickers Vimy ( Vimy was a battle site in World War I. As this was a crew-served craft, it did not get all the media attention of the solo flight of Lindbergh in l927. There were a good many both airplane and airship (zeppelin, blimp etc) Transatlantic flights prior to Lindy and a book has been written on the theme.
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