50 x Books -Yesterday We Were in America First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop
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Yesterday We Were in America: Alcock and Brown - First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop by Brendan Lynch · Haynes Publishing UK · Paperback
320 pages · ISBN 085733249X
The author sets the background to the flight against the birth of manned powered flight and Britain in the aftermath of the First World War.
He goes on to describe the record breaking flight in detail, drawing on Alcock and Brown’s written records and their flying log book, and concludes with a round-up of the fates of all the pioneers who are mentioned in the narrative, and the flight’s legacy for Everyman.
Now published as a paperback, Yesterday We Were in America is the first accurate and atmospheric account of one of the most significant and dramatic flights in history.
A well written book about the first non-stop Atlantic crossing by aeroplane.
Well researched.
Some interesting photographs of the strange machines being flown in those far off days.
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