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Navy destroyers babied the first ocean crossing
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Eight years before Charles Lindbergh claimed all the glory, a US Navy flying boat called the Curtiss NC-4 actually crossed the Atlantic first. But they cheated spectacularly. The Navy stationed a chain of 68 destroyers across the ocean to act as a breadcrumb trail of searchlights and rescue ships. It took them nearly three weeks of pit stops, proving early aviation was mostly just highly stressful boating.
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