Isbn: 9781620068762 - first crossing: the 1919 trans-atlantic flight of alcock and brown (22 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The first to cross the Atlantic non-stop wasn't Charles Lindbergh, but two long-forgotten British airmen. This is their story.On June 14-15, 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown flew their flimsy wood and fabric modified Vickers Vimy bomber from St. Johns, Newfoundland to Cliveden, Ireland-eight years before Lindbergh's epic New York to Paris flight.Alcock & Brown's story unfolds on two levels-an action/adventure tale that reads more like fiction blended with a lay history of early technological breakthroughs that brought about the modern aviation age.In First Crossing, we follow the two Royal Air Force officers from their separate upbringings in Manchester, England through terrifying Great War aerial combat. Both would be shot down and become prisoners of war. While incarcerated, both independently dreamed and schemed of a way to win Lord Northcliffe's £10,000 prize for the first non-stop Trans-Atlantic crossing.At war's end, in an incredible moment of serendipity, they chanced to meet for the first time at Vickers Aviation near London and discovered their mutual interest in the race. Alcock needed an over-ocean navigator; Brown needed a pilot-what proved to be an ideal marriage. Through a combination of luck and their competitor's bad fortune, Alcock and Brown launched themselves into aviation immortality.…

Condizione: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnRobert O. Harder has much in common with his subjects. Like Captain John Alcock he was a multi-engine (piston/propeller) pilot-as well as an instrument-rated commercial pilot. As with Lieutenant Ted Brown, he was an Air Fo.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. First Crossing | The 1919 Trans-Atlantic Flight of Alcock and Brown | Robert O Harder | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | Sunbury Press, Inc. | EAN 9781620068762 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …