Race the Atlantic Wind: The Flight of Alc*ck and Brown-Oisín McG
O'Brien Press Ltd
Race the Atlantic WindThe Flight of Alcock and Brown\nAuthor(s): Oisn McGann\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: O'Brien Press Ltd, Ireland\nImprint: O'Brien Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781788491013, 978-1788491013\nSynopsis\nIn the spring of 1919, after the end of the First World War, teams of pilots and navigators begin to gather on the North American island of Newfoundland. They are attempting what many believe to be impossible to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean. Equipped with machines made mostly from wood, fabric and wire, they intend to fly the 1,800 miles to Ireland, in the face of the merciless North Atlantic weather.\n\nJohn Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown are late to arrive. Competing against some of Europes most famous pilots, these two British war veterans are considered rank outsiders. Maggie McRory is a sixteen-year-old girl who sees the gathering of all these aircraft and their crews as a chance to escape her narrow existence. Her war-scarred uncle, however, views them as .
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