It wasn’t long after Kitty Hawk that intrepid birdmen sought to overcome the challenges imposed by large bodies of water, beginning with Louis BlĂ©riot’s English Channel crossing in 1909. Before World War I, bold aviators had already traversed the Mediterranean, North and Norwegian seas. By war’s end, the development of large, increasingly powerful multiengine planes …
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