The Big Hop
লেখক / Author: David Rooney
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The inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history. In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop”: an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour flight, made it to Ireland. Celebrated on both continents, the transatlantic contest offered a surge of inspiration?and a welcome distraction?to a public reeling from the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But the seven airmen who made the attempt were quickly forgotten, their achievement overshadowed by the solo Atlantic flights of…
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 336
Language: en
ISBN-13: 9781529934328
ISBN-10: 152993432X