Atlantic Adventure: A Complete History of Transatlantic Flight

236 pp. Illustrated with black-and-white plates. Begins with the first heavier-than-air crossing of Lieutenant Commander A.C. Read, U.S.N., in the flying-boat NC-4 on the 16th May, 1919. On the 14th June of that same year, Alcock and Brown of immortal memory made the first non-stop dash from West to East to the West coast of Ireland, in their converted Vickers-Vimy bomber in fifteen hours. Also contains the whole chronicle of British, American, German, French, and Irish attempts. Includes Lindberg, Bert Hinkler and Amelia Earhart.