Curtiss NC flying boat

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Curtiss NC-4, US Navy A-2294, the flying boat that made the first flight across the Atlantic in May 1919, via Trepassey, the Azores and Lisbon to Plymouth, and the only NC boat to survive, on loan from the Smithsonian to the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida: a large biplane with a short single-step hull, four Liberty engines (two outboard tractors and a tandem tractor and pusher in the raised centre nacelle), king-post panels above the long upper-wing overhangs, wing-tip floats, and a biplane tail with three rudders carried on an open outrigger truss: a blue-grey hull, floats and struts, clear-doped linen wings and tail, a white ‘4’ on each side of the forward and rear hull and under the bow, and red, white and blue stripes on the centre rudder with ‘A-2294’ in black, as photographed at Pensacola (no NC boat is preserved in a UK museum; shape from a period three-view drawing checked against photographs; the museum’s beaching cradle is not modelled). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 311 models · download .glb (776 KB) · Plate 46 in The Hangar