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For many, the names Washington Donaldson, Walter Wellman, J. C. Woods, and G. H. Scott do not automatically ring a bell in connection with the history of transatlantic flight. Yet these and scores of other brave men and women successfully challenged the Atlantic in heroic flights before Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and “Wrong-way” Corrigan. This profusely illustrated volume records the exciting saga of those daring and sometimes reckless adventurers who battled storms, darkness, and high winds in fragile aircraft to pave the way for aviators who would eventually conquer the ocean and fly directly from North America to Europe and beyond.
Joshua Stoff, Air and Space Curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, chronicles the dramatic events of the international race to make transatlantic flight a reality. Over 250 rare photographs — many previously unpublished — trace a host of flight attempts, including a number made in lighter-than-air balloons and in huge “flying boats” developed by the Curtiss Company and the U.S. Navy. Also documented here are Alcock and Brown’s difficult crossing from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919, an around-the-world flight in 1924 by the U.S. Army’s “world cruisers” (which took five months, 22 days, and 72 stops!), Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, and Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated circumnavigation attempt in 1937.
Extensive, well-researched captions accompany the photographs, completing a rich and thrilling pictorial history that promises to delight aviation buffs and readers fascinated by the history of flight.
Joshua Stoff, Air and Space Curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, chronicles the dramatic events of the international race to make transatlantic flight a reality. Over 250 rare photographs — many previously unpublished — trace a host of flight attempts, including a number made in lighter-than-air balloons and in huge “flying boats” developed by the Curtiss Company and the U.S. Navy. Also documented here are Alcock and Brown’s difficult crossing from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919, an around-the-world flight in 1924 by the U.S. Army’s “world cruisers” (which took five months, 22 days, and 72 stops!), Charles Lindbergh’s celebrated solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927, and Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated circumnavigation attempt in 1937.
Extensive, well-researched captions accompany the photographs, completing a rich and thrilling pictorial history that promises to delight aviation buffs and readers fascinated by the history of flight.
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Publisher
Dover PublicationsYear
2013eBook ISBN
9780486148007INDEX
Abingdon, England
Acosta, Richard
Adamowitz, Benjamin
Adamowitz, Joseph
aerial observation, in Civil War
aircraft manufacturers:
Bellanca
Bernard
Boeing
Breguet
Curtiss
DeHavilland
Dornier
Douglas
Fairchild
Farman
Focke- Wulfe
Fokker
Handley-Page
Junkers
Keystone
Latecoeur
Levavasseur
Lockheed
Loening
Martinsyde
Percival
Pratt & Whitney
Ryan
Savoia-Marchetta
Sikorsky
Sopwith
Stinson
Vickers
Vultee
Wright
Air Service (U.S.)
Akita
Akron (dirigible)
Alcock, Capt. Sir John
America (Byrd flight)
America (dirigible)
America (Curtiss Model H)
American Girl
American Legion
American Nurse
Ancker, Mrs. Aage
Angmagssalik, Greenland
Arnold, Lt. Leslie
Assolant, Jean
Atlantic (airplane)
Atlantic (balloon)
Atlantic City, N.J.
Azores
Baghdad
Balbo, Italo
Balchen, Bernt
Baldonnel Aerodrome
Barling monoplane
Barre, Vt.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Bellanca
Bellanca, Giuseppe
Bellone, Maurice
Bergen, Norway
Berlin, Germany
Bermuda
Bernard monoplane
Bertaud, Lloyd
Billings, Montana
Bleriot, Louis
Boardman, Russell
Bochkon, John
Boeing
Bonelli, Capt. Pietro
Bordeaux, France
Boston
Boyd, Capt. J. Errol
Brandenburg
Breguet
Bremen
Bridgeport, Conn.
Brisbane, Australia
British Imperial Airways.
Brock, Bill
Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Brown, Henry
Brown, Sir Arthur Whitten
Budapest
Burry Port, Wales
Byrd, Richard E.
C-5 (U.S. naval airship)
Cannon, Harry
Cape Cod
Carling Brewery
Cavalier
Century of Progress
Chamberlin, Clarence
Chester, England
Chicago, Ill
Chicago
China Clipper
Christiansen, Capt. Friedrich
City of Detroit
City of New York
City of New York II,
City of New York (balloon)
City of Richmond
City of Warsaw
Clavier, Charles
Cleveland, Ohio
Clover Field, Calif.
Codos, Paul
Coli, Capt. Francois
College Point, N.Y.
Collyer, Charles
Columbia
commercial air service, transatlantic
Coolidge, Pres. Calvin
Copenhagen, Denmark
Corbu, Pierre
Corrigan, Douglas
Costes, Dieudonne
Courtney, Frank
Cramer, Parker
Cranwell Military Aerodrome
Croydon Aerodrome
Curtin, Lt. Lawrence
Curtiss, Glenn
Curtiss Conqueror engine
Curtiss Field
Curtiss Model H
Curtiss NCs (Flying boats)
Curtiss Robin
Daily Graphic
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Dakar, West Africa
Daniels, Josephus
Darby Harbor, Nfld.
Darius, Stephen
Davis, Lt. Cmdr. Noel
Dawn
Decker, Dick
DeHavilland Dragon Moth
DeHavilland Gypsy Moth
DeHavilland Puss Moth
Dellinger, Lt. Cmdr. P. N.
Dessau, Germany
Detroit, Mich.
Diteman...
Table of contents
- DOVER BOOKS ON TRANSPORTATION
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PHOTO CREDITS
- INTRODUCTION
- LIGHTER-THAN-AIR ATTEMPTS
- THE U.S. NAVY SUCCEEDS
- 1919: FIRST NONSTOPS
- WORLD CRUISERS
- THE ORTEIG PRIZE
- THE LONE EAGLE
- NEXT ACROSS
- LOST AT SEA
- EAST TO WEST
- WOMEN CROSS THE SEA
- FLIGHTS TO MANY LANDS
- WILEY POST AND OTHERS
- LINDBERGH REDUX
- DIRIGIBLES
- AROUND THE WORLD - AND OTHER FEATS
- COMMERCIAL SUCCESS
- INDEX