The Great Atlantic Air Race

Download or read book The Great Atlantic Air Race written by Percy Rowe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some of those who people this book are: Alberto Santos-Dumont, the "first man to fly" ; Albert I of Monaco, a scientist -prince ; Alfred, Lord Northcliffe, "the Napoleon of Fleet Street" ; His brother, Harold, Lord Rothermere ; Winston Churchill, cabinet minister and later Prime Minister ; Joey Smallwood, reporter, later Premier of Newfoundland ; Orville and Wilbur Wright, whose flights were ignored ; Louis Bleriot, the first to fly the English Channel ; T.O.M. Sopwith, builder of planes ; Fred Raynham, an early distinguished test pilot ; Harry Hawker, "the highest paid flyer in the world' ; Jack Alcock, later Sir John, pilot ; Teddy Whitten-Brown, later Sir Arthur, navigator ; Rear Admiral Mark Kerr, sailor-airman-author-poet ; Tryggve Gran, a Norwegian with Captain Scott in Antartica ; Herbert Brackley, much-decorated pilot ; Glenn Curtiss, American aerial pioneer ; John Towers, commander of the U.S. Navy's first air division ; "Putty" Read, first American to fly the Atlantic ; Robert Lavender, radio specialist, later legal aide in the development of the atomic bomb ; Marc Mitscher, pilot, later a famous admiral ; Pat Bellinger, an early U.S. naval flyer ; Kathleen Kennedy, the bubbling fiancee of Teddy Whitten-Brown ; C.W.F. "Fax" Morgan, the most popular flyer in St. John's ; "Mac" Grieve, a phlegmatic Scot ; Muriel Hawker, a woman with faith ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the US Navy, later President ; Charles Lester, cartage contractor ; Geoffrey Taylor, mathematician, later knighted ; Robert Furlong, Boy Scout, later Chief Justice of Newfoundland ; Mrs. Augustus Lester, who danced for Marconi ; Robert Reid, railway tycoon ; The Dooley sisters, who offered coffee flasks with sympathy ; Emory Coil, airship commander ; Mrs. Bride Sutton, who watched the fleet sail into Trepassey ; Captain Adolph Duhn, master of a "tramp" steamer ; Captain E. S. J. Alcock, Sir John's brother."--page 5-6.