Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown - First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1844256812 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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He lives in Dublin.. He has written numerous books, including the award-winning motor racing history Green Dust. About the AuthorBrendan Lynch is a former Grand Prix correspondent for UK and Irish media including The Observer, Daily Mail and Irish Press. As a supporter of Bertrand Russell, he was imprisoned for anti-nuclear protests in the 1960s
He lives in Dublin.. He has written numerous books, including the award-winning motor racing history Green Dust. Brendan Lynch is a former Grand Prix correspondent for UK and Irish media including The Observer, Daily Mail and Irish Press. As a supporter of Bertrand Russell, he was imprisoned for anti-nuclear protests in the 1960s
On 14 June 1919 John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown took off from Newfoundland in their open-cockpit Vickers Vimy converted bomber to attempt a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic. In researching one of the most significant flights in history, Brendan Lynch has drawn on the written records of Alcock and Brown, and interviewed the last surviving witness of their dramatic arrival in Ireland and the adventurer Steve Fossett, who recreated the flight in 2005.. Some 16 hours later they landed at Derrygimla in Connemara, Ireland, to become national heroes. Navigating blind for most of the way, they had flown almost 1,900 miles, the longest distance ever flown by man
SpeedReaders.info Review Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown, First to fly the Atlantic non-stopby Brendan Lynch"Yesterday We Were in America!" Imagine saying that at a cocktail party, or to your friends and neighbors--in 1919. This is in fact the phrase pilot Alcock kept repeating to the crew of the Marconi radio station near which he had landed, and who simply would not believe him until he produced as evidence a sealed mailbag from Newfoundland, his point of departure 1,880 miles back across the Atl. Five Stars Tom Garrett A lot of history that few know. Needs to be read, well written and very interesting!. Merton E. Munson said Five Stars. This is a very interesting and readable book. It seems to be very well researched.