Colin Higgs & Bruce Vigar 
Race Across the Atlantic [PDF ebook] 
Alcock and Brown’s Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight

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‘;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 Atlanticand the prize of GBP10, 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

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