In Pensacola, we toured one of the largest aviation museums in the world. We viewed more than 150 different planes, many of them suspended in simulated flight from the ceiling of this museum. In this photograph, I incorporate three naval planes that flew their missions during the early years of the 20th century. The huge tail at right belongs to the only surviving Curtiss floatplane, the NC-4. In 1919, it became the first plane to fly across the Atlantic, stopping twice in the Azores on the way from Newfoundland to Lisbon. The plane was given by the Navy to the Smithsonian after its return to the US but was too large to be displayed there. It is now on loan to Pensacola’s museum.