The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future by David Rooney

The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

David Rooney

320 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction history
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Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft - made mainly from wood and stiff linen - struggled to take off from the North American island's rocky slopes. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men, freezing cold and ba...

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