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The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author : Peter Bostock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Peter Bostock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Transatlantic flights categories.
The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author : Percy Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library
Release Date : 1977
The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Percy Rowe and has been published by Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Transatlantic flights categories.
The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author : Peter Bostock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Peter Bostock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race, 1969 categories.
The Big Jump
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Author : Richard Bak
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2011-06-24
The Big Jump written by Richard Bak and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-24 with History categories.
The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Drawing on many previously overlooked sources, Bak offers a fresh look at the personalities that made up this epic air race – a deadly competition that culminated in one of the twentieth century's most thrilling personal achievements and turned Charles Lindbergh into the first international hero of the modern age. Examines the extraordinary life and cultural impact of Charles Lindbergh, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, and his legendary trans-Atlantic flight that captured the world's imagination Explores the romance of flying during aviation's Golden Age of the 1920s, the enduring mystique of the aviator, and rapid technological advances that made for a paradigm shift in human perception of the world Filled with colorful characters from early aviation history, including Charles Nungesser, Igor Sikorsky, René Fonck, Richard Byrd, and Paul Tarascon History and the imagination take flight in this gripping account of high-flying adventure, in which a group of courageous men tested the both limits of technology and the power of nature in pursuit of one of mankind's boldest dreams.
The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author : Gavin Will
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Gavin Will and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Aeronautics categories.
Previous ed.: The big hop: the North Atlantic air race. Portugal Cove-St. Phillip's, Nfld.: Boulder Publications, c2008.
The Great Air Race Glory Tragedy And The Dawn Of American Aviation
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Author : John Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Great Air Race Glory Tragedy And The Dawn Of American Aviation written by John Lancaster and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with History categories.
The untold, almost unbelievable, story of the daring pilots who risked their lives in an unprecedented air race in 1919—and put American aviation on the map. Years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of daredevil pilots, most of them veterans of the World War I, brought aviation to the masses by competing in the sensational transcontinental air race of 1919. The contest awakened Americans to the practical possibilities of flight, yet despite its significance, it has until now been all but forgotten. In The Great Air Race, journalist and amateur pilot John Lancaster finally reclaims this landmark event and the unheralded aviators who competed to be the fastest man in America. His thrilling chronicle opens with the race’s impresario, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, who believed the nation’s future was in the skies. Mitchell’s contest—critics called it a stunt—was a risky undertaking, given that the DH-4s and Fokkers the contestants flew were almost comically ill-suited for long-distance travel: engines caught fire in flight; crude flight instruments were of little help in clouds and fog; and the brakeless planes were prone to nosing over on landing. Yet the aviators possessed an almost inhuman disregard for their own safety, braving blizzards and mechanical failure as they landed in remote cornfields or at the edges of cliffs. Among the most talented were Belvin “The Flying Parson” Maynard, whose dog, Trixie, shared the rear cockpit with his mechanic, and John Donaldson, a war hero who twice escaped German imprisonment. Jockeying reporters made much of their rivalries, and the crowds along the race’s route exploded, with everyday Americans eager to catch their first glimpse of airplanes and the mythic “birdmen” who flew them. The race was a test of endurance that many pilots didn’t finish: some dropped out from sheer exhaustion, while others, betrayed by their engines or their instincts, perished. For all its tragedy, Lancaster argues, the race galvanized the nation to embrace the technology of flight. A thrilling tale of men and their machines, The Great Air Race offers a new origin point for commercial aviation in the United States, even as it greatly expands our pantheon of aviation heroes.
Race Across The Atlantic
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Author : Bruce Vigar
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2019-03-30
Race Across The Atlantic written by Bruce Vigar and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-30 with Transportation categories.
“Reveals their race across the Atlantic in stunning pictures . . . includes a first-hand account from Captain Brown of his world-first flight.” —Daily Mail Online It was Tuesday, 15 July 1919 and for the residents of Clifden on Ireland’s west coast this was not to be a normal day. Just before 08.40 hours, descending out of the gloom, came a large, twin-engine airplane lining up for final approach. After a flight lasting 16 hours and 28 minutes, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten-Brown had won the race to be the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic—and the prize of £10,000, roughly equivalent to $1,000,000 in today’s money, offered by Lord Rothermere, aviation philanthropist and owner of the Daily Mail. Illustrated by many unique photographs this book tells the story of the race, delayed for almost six years by the First World War. Many aircraft would be entered but few would even get off the ground. The teams faced great difficulties in preparing for the challenge of crossing one of the most hostile stretches of ocean on Earth. The authors not only reveal tales of failures and technical difficulties, but of the intense frustration of waiting for the perfect weather-window. And even when finally airborne, Alcock and Brown’s flight almost ended in disaster on several occasions as weather conditions almost conspired to cast them down into the grey, cold waters of the Atlantic and almost certain death. “Right from the first page, you’ll be hooked . . . you’re in the cockpit with Alcock and Brown and every dump and dive of the flight across the Atlantic.” —Vintage Airfix
The Great Atlantic Air Race
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Author : Percy Rowe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Percy Rowe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Transportation categories.
"Some of those who people this book are: Alberto Santos-Dumont, the "first man to fly" ; Albert I of Monaco, a scientist -prince ; Alfred, Lord Northcliffe, "the Napoleon of Fleet Street" ; His brother, Harold, Lord Rothermere ; Winston Churchill, cabinet minister and later Prime Minister ; Joey Smallwood, reporter, later Premier of Newfoundland ; Orville and Wilbur Wright, whose flights were ignored ; Louis Bleriot, the first to fly the English Channel ; T.O.M. Sopwith, builder of planes ; Fred Raynham, an early distinguished test pilot ; Harry Hawker, "the highest paid flyer in the world' ; Jack Alcock, later Sir John, pilot ; Teddy Whitten-Brown, later Sir Arthur, navigator ; Rear Admiral Mark Kerr, sailor-airman-author-poet ; Tryggve Gran, a Norwegian with Captain Scott in Antartica ; Herbert Brackley, much-decorated pilot ; Glenn Curtiss, American aerial pioneer ; John Towers, commander of the U.S. Navy's first air division ; "Putty" Read, first American to fly the Atlantic ; Robert Lavender, radio specialist, later legal aide in the development of the atomic bomb ; Marc Mitscher, pilot, later a famous admiral ; Pat Bellinger, an early U.S. naval flyer ; Kathleen Kennedy, the bubbling fiancee of Teddy Whitten-Brown ; C.W.F. "Fax" Morgan, the most popular flyer in St. John's ; "Mac" Grieve, a phlegmatic Scot ; Muriel Hawker, a woman with faith ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the US Navy, later President ; Charles Lester, cartage contractor ; Geoffrey Taylor, mathematician, later knighted ; Robert Furlong, Boy Scout, later Chief Justice of Newfoundland ; Mrs. Augustus Lester, who danced for Marconi ; Robert Reid, railway tycoon ; The Dooley sisters, who offered coffee flasks with sympathy ; Emory Coil, airship commander ; Mrs. Bride Sutton, who watched the fleet sail into Trepassey ; Captain Adolph Duhn, master of a "tramp" steamer ; Captain E. S. J. Alcock, Sir John's brother."--page 5-6.
The Great Air Race England Australia 1934
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Author : Arthur Swinson
language : en
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1968
The Great Air Race England Australia 1934 written by Arthur Swinson and has been published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Airplane racing categories.