Race Across the Atlantic : Alcock and Brown's Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight
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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 airplane lining up for final approach. One or two onlookers recognized the danger straight away for this was an area of soft bog, but their attempts to alert the pilot were in vain. 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 nonstop 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 ℗Đ10,000, 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." 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.""--,Provided by Freading.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Vigar, B. (2019). Race Across the Atlantic: Alcock and Brown's Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight . Pen & Sword Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vigar, Bruce. 2019. Race Across the Atlantic: Alcock and Brown's Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight. Pen & Sword Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Vigar, Bruce. Race Across the Atlantic: Alcock and Brown's Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight Pen & Sword Books, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Vigar, Bruce. Race Across the Atlantic: Alcock and Brown's Record-Breaking Non-Stop Flight Pen & Sword Books, 2019.
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