The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton : From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon, Paperback / softback Book

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

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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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