Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours

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Excerpt from Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours: With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation Capt. Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, K.B.E., Frontispiece, The Late Capt. Sir John Alcock, K.B.E., D.S.C., Feathering the Wings - Setting Up the Flier at St. John's, N.F, The Last Touches - Adjusting the Bracing Wires, It Was Hard to Find an Aerodrome with Sufficient "Take Off", Sightseers, If Left to Themselves, Would Have Wrecked the Machine, The Transatlantic Machine - A Vickers-Vimy With Roll-Royce Engines, A Special Kind of Gasoline Had to Be Used, All Aboard for the First Trial Flight, The Vickers-Vimy Transatlantic Machine in the Air, The Last Square Meal in America Was Eaten Near the Wings of the Machine, The Late Capt. Sir John Alcock Just Before Starting, Shipping the First Direct Transatlantic Air Mail, Hot coffee was taken aboard, Slow rising nearly caused disaster at the start of the great flight About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.