title Uni: The Navy-Curtiss NC-4 Trans-Atlantic Flight, Plymouth Sound - 31st May 1986 intro 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 scan-111216-0002 Andy Bray hangs around with Nosher scan-111216-0010 The PBY does a pass over Drake's Island scan-111216-0011 The Catalina flying boat does a close pass scan-111216a-0001 Catalina C-FOWE - flies over scan-111216a-0002 More flying Catalina action scan-111216-0007 The Catalina lines up to land in Plymouth Sound scan-111216-0012 The PBY on a second pass of the Sound scan-111216-0008 Touchdown on the water scan-111216-0015 Touchdown on Plymouth Sound scan-111216-0016 The Catalina churns up the water as it speeds along scan-111216-0017 Canoeists float around, watching scan-111216-0018 The PBY taxis around in the Sound scan-111216-0013 The flying boat comes to a halt scan-111216-0041 The Catalina is moored scan-111216-0040 The crew is collected from the floating Catalina scan-111216-0039 Crowds wait on the Mayflower Steps, whilst the band plays scan-111216-0035 The barge pulls up to the steps scan-111216-0034 The Mayor mounts the Mayflower Steps scan-111216-0042 The mayoral Rolls-Royce scan-111216-0033 The second Catalina bobs around scan-111216-0046 A RIB buzzes by the racing catamaran "Anne Claire" scan-111216-0014 A racing catamaran: Optique Baumont scan-111216-0047 Orange buoys scan-111216-0022 A tramp has a sleep on the grass in Beaumont Park scan-111216-0024 A tramp sleeping by a park bench scan-111216-0023 Kids play footie in the park scan-111216-0025 A "261 Plymouth Sound" DJ talks to the crowd scan-111216-0026 The Armada Centre with a Cokin starburst filter scan-111216-0027 Crowds mill around the newly-opened Armada Centre scan-111216-0030 A band plays at the Plymouth Sound roadshow at the end of Armada Way scan-111216-0031 Plymouth Sound Radio, live broadcast scan-111216-0032 People watch as a band plays live on air scan-111216-0021 Nosher was clearly obsessed with the view out of the bedroom window at Cromwell Road scan-111216-0028 A ball of bath foam is held up to the light