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Hardcover First Across!: The U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919 Book

ISBN: 0870211846

ISBN13: 9780870211843

First Across!: The U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919

First Across is the exciting story of the first transatlantic flight. The flight, made in 1919, took a six-man crew nearly three weeks to complete. This book describes in detail the entire operation: the planning, the men and their aircraft, the primitive radio communication, and method of air navigation. In First Across Richard K. Smith has used photographs, cartoons, and even advertisements of the era to help evoke that spring of 1919, an important moment in the history of transportation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Rated 5 stars
entgirly satisfactory purchase

This is an excellent and very factual book of the flights of the Nancy flying boats in 1919. The author must have had access to the logs of the NC-4 to have had such detail. He also had more detail on the network of destroyers and other warships that picketed the flight for guidance and support than I have seen before in any other historical text on the subject. I am very pleased to add this to my library.

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First Across, the U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919

Historically very complete, well researched, covers not only the factual story, but also the significance of the planning as well as the execution of the flight. Includes what went wrong as well as what went right, and explains the impact of this flight on subsequent long distance overwater commercial flying.

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The U.S. Navy's Forgotten Flight of 1919

Several million people fly the Atlantic Ocean each year. Every plane that crosses does so under a system of radio communications, weather forecasting, satellite navigation, and rescue forces that is the inheritance of the first Trans-Atlantic flight, by the US Navy's NC flying boats. Today, the story of the NC Trans-Atlantic Flight Expedition and her crews has been all but lost to the dustbin of history. This review...

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