Race Across the Atlantic

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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 aeroplane lining up for final approach. One or two on-lookers recognised the danger straight away for this was an area of soft bog, but their attempts to alert the pilot were in vain.

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The aircraft began to sink and, with a squelch, came to a sudden stop, the tail rearing up in the air. Dazed and with fuel filling the cockpit the two-man crew scrambled out, grabbing what they could. 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 non-stop across the Atlantic. It was a rough ending for a race that began in April 1913 when Lord Rothermere, aviation philanthropist and owner of the Daily Mail, offered a prize of 10,000, roughly equivalent to $1,000,000 in today's money, to the aviator who shall first cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane in flight from any point in the United States of America, Canada or Newfoundland to any point in Great Britain or Ireland in 72 continuous hours'.

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Anul publicarii	2019
ISBN	9781526747839
Format coperta	Cartonata
Numar pagini	232
Limba	Englezã
Domeniul	History
Autor	Bruce Vigar, Colin Higgs
De aceeasi editura	Pen & Sword Books Limited
CM	72364
DS	D/3#BR/3#MEGA/15
Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=9781526747839
Dimensiuni	Height: 9.25 Inches, Length: 6.25 Inches, Weight: 1.15 Pounds, Width: 0.75 Inches