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Uni: The Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Trans-Atlantic Flight, Plymouth Sound - 31st May 1986
A pair of Consolidated PBY-6A "Catalina" flying boats - including C-FOWE, registered to Robert Franks - land in Plymouth Sound to celebrate the anniversay of the Curtiss NC-4 flight in 1917 - the first trans-atlantic flight. The original NC-4 flight plan called for a first leg of 864km (540 miles) from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Rockaway Beach, New York, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then 736km (460 miles) to Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland. The third (long) leg of the flight, from Newfoundland to the Azores, was 2,080km (1,300 miles). The fourth leg, 1,280 km (800 miles) to Lisbon, and the last, 1,240 km (775 miles) to Plymouth, brought the total distance to 6,200 km (3,875 miles) [source: National Air and Space Museum]. The plane suffered some damage when it collided with some buoys in the Sound, but was repaired and flown back to Canada. This set also includes photos of a Plymouth Sound Radio outside broadcast near the Armada Centre - possibly as part of an opening ceremony for that building
next album: Uni: A Tutorial Miscellany, Plymouth Polytechnic, Devon - 2nd June 1986
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The PBY does a pass over Drake's Island
The Catalina flying boat does a close pass
Catalina C-FOWE - flies over
More flying Catalina action
The Catalina lines up to land in Plymouth Sound
The PBY on a second pass of the Sound
Touchdown on the water
Touchdown on Plymouth Sound
The Catalina churns up the water as it speeds along
Canoeists float around, watching
The PBY taxis around in the Sound
The flying boat comes to a halt
The Catalina is moored
The crew is collected from the floating Catalina
Crowds wait on the Mayflower Steps, whilst the band plays
The barge pulls up to the steps
The Mayor mounts the Mayflower Steps
The mayoral Rolls-Royce
The second Catalina bobs around
A RIB buzzes by the racing catamaran 'Anne Claire'
A racing catamaran: Optique Baumont
Orange buoys
A tramp has a sleep on the grass in Beaumont Park
A tramp sleeping by a park bench
Kids play footie in the park
A '261 Plymouth Sound' DJ talks to the crowd
The Armada Centre with a Cokin starburst filter
Crowds mill around the newly-opened Armada Centre
A band plays at the Plymouth Sound roadshow at the end of Armada Way
Plymouth Sound Radio, live broadcast
People watch as a band plays live on air
Nosher was clearly obsessed with the view out of the bedroom window at Cromwell Road
A ball of bath foam is held up to the light
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