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Arthur Whitten Sir Brown. Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours
Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. Some Preliminary Events
CHAPTER II. St. John's
CHAPTER III. The Start
CHAPTER IV. Evening
CHAPTER V. Night
CHAPTER VI. Morning
CHAPTER VII. The Arrival
CHAPTER VIII. Aftermath of Arrival
CHAPTER IX. The Navigation of Aircraft
NAVIGATION BY "DEAD RECKONING"
NAVIGATION BY ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION
NAVIGATION BY WIRELESS DIRECTION FINDER
CHAPTER X. The Future of Transatlantic Flight
CHAPTER XI. The Air Age
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Arthur Whitten Sir Brown
With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation
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"Machine smashed before he could get it off the ground."
We thanked the stranger for his news, and passed on to hear further details at the Cochrane Hotel, which was the headquarters of the several transatlantic flight contingents at St. John's. We had rather expected the Sopwith and Martinsyde parties to make an attempt on the eighteenth, although the conditions were definitely unfavorable. The news of the American N. C. 4's arrival at the Azores had spurred them to the great adventure, despite the weather. The United States flying boats were not competing for the Daily Mail prize; but Hawker and Grieve wanted to gain for Great Britain the honor of being the first to cross the Atlantic by air. The outcome of this ambition was the gallant effort that ended in the sea, half-way to Ireland.
