Beautiful photo of Thor Solberg's arrival at the Widerøe seaplane station near Oslo following his transatlantic flight, which took almost a month via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Solberg and Paul Oscanyan arrived in Bergen two days earlier. Photo by: Asbjørn Barlaup / Nasjonalbiblioteket (Norway)

Named for the Norse seafarer Leif Erikson, this Loening flew from America to Norway via Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes. Photo must have been taken on 17 July 1935, the day Thor Solberg and Paul Oscanyan set out from New York. Solberg returned as he felt the plane was wrongly loaded and they took off again without any publicity the next day. They finally arrived in Bergen on 16 August. Solberg seems to have believed they were the first to fly from America to Norway, but Jimmie Mattern had flown, unintentionally but non-stop, from New York to Norway in 1933 in his second Lockheed Vega NR869E. Photo by: Rudy Arnold / Smithsonian Institution