Yesterday We Were in America : Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop

Yesterday We Were in America : Alcock and Brown, First to Fly the Atlantic Non-Stop

Brendan Lynch

Språken
FörlagThe History Press
ISBN9780750991094

On 14 June 1919 – eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic – two men from Manchester took off in an open-cockpit Vickers Vimy and flew into the history books. They battled through a sixteen-hour journey of snow, ice and continuous cloud, with a non-functioning wireless and a