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STORY OF TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT
David Beaty
(320 pages) STK
Price $21.95
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The Atlantic had proved a graveyard for many ships,
and when the first aircraft began to fly it after WWI, all the omens warned
that it would swallow up planes as well. Nonetheless, the pioneers--Read,
Alcock and Brown, Lindbergh, and many others--continued to pit themselves
against the odds. David Beaty involves us not only in the drama of man
against the elements but also in the increasingly vehement struggle of man
against man: the race to be first, the race to beat the ships, the race to
run a commercial airline, the race to be fastest.
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