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The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon

The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon

Burns, Benjamin J.

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ISBN10: 078646447X
ISBN13: 9780786464470
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jan 24 2012
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Navy-Curtiss flying boat with a crew of six, in May 1919. Based on more than 40 hours of personal interviews with Hinton, this volume chronicles that first flight and Hinton's other remarkable adventures in aviation--which include being lost in a downed balloon in the Canadian Arctic and believed dead, making the first flight to Rio de Janeiro from New York, pursuing the first aerial exploration of the Amazon, and undertaking a nationwide promotion of aviation and airports for the Exchange Clubs in the United States. With the dramatic and adventurous story of Hinton, a lost chapter in the history of flight in America is uncovered.

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