The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future Stephen Shaskan Armentrout

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The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future Stephen Shaskan ArmentroutThe inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history. In 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in the Big Hop: an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was forced to abandon the journey halfway, and two pairs never made it into the air. Only one team, after a death defying sixteen hour