Race across the Atlantic
Vigar, Bruce2019
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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. 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.
Main title:
Race across the Atlantic / Bruce Vigar, Colin Higgs.
Author:
Vigar, Bruce, authorHiggs, Colin, 1957-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Air World, 2019.
Collation:
232 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781526747839 (hbk)
Dewey class:
629.1309163629.13 VIG
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2811539