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Big Hop : The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and into the Future by David Rooney (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324050969
ISBN-139781324050964
eBay Product ID (ePID)14071309679
Product Key Features
Book TitleBig Hop : the First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2025
TopicEurope / Great Britain / 20th Century, Aeronautics & Astronautics
GenreTechnology & Engineering, History
AuthorDavid Rooney
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight17.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
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Dewey Edition23
ReviewsOne of the most astonishing moments in aviation history finally gets its due in The Big Hop, a vivid and utterly compelling account of the 1919 contest to cross the Atlantic by plane. David Rooney is an expert storyteller with a big heart, capturing not only the perils faced by the intrepid airmen who attempted the flight, but also their humanity., Excellent... [The Big Hop] consists of colourful biographical sketches of the aviators who took part in the competition and thrilling accounts of their efforts., Rendered in Rooney's graceful prose, this makes for a breathtaking tale of bravery, perseverance, and fortune., A joy to read... The Big Hop is a delectable serving of escapist nostalgia, a heroic adventure story... Rooney describes this drama with flair and enthusiasm., [Rooney is] a master of suspense... What Grann did for 18th-century seafaring, David Rooney achieves for early aeronautics and its first heroes., Anyone with an interest in the formative era of aviation will thrill to this account... An achievement to remember., Informative and entertaining... The Big Hop is a fascinating look at the people who risked everything to achieve immortality through flight., Elegant, passionate, and meticulous... The Big Hop may be the finest aviation history you ever get to read., Riveting... The Big Hop restores the 1919 achievement of those two young men, Alcock and Brown, to their rightful place in aviation history.
Dewey Decimal629.1309163
SynopsisThe 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 flight, made it to Ireland. Celebrated on both continents, the transatlantic contest offered a surge of inspiration--and a welcome distraction--to a public reeling from the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But the seven airmen who made the attempt were quickly forgotten, their achievement overshadowed by the solo Atlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart years later. In The Big Hop , David Rooney grants the pioneering aviators of 1919 the spotlight they deserve. From Harry Hawker, the pilot who as a young man had watched Houdini fly over his native Australia, to the engineer Ted Brown, a US citizen who joined the Royal Flying Corps, Rooney traces the lives of the unassuming men who performed extraordinary acts in the sky. Mining evocative first-person accounts and aviation archives, Rooney also follows the participants' journeys: learning to fly on flimsy airplanes made of timber struts and varnished fabric; surviving the bloodiest war that Europe had ever yet seen; and battling faulty coolant systems, severe storms, and extreme fatigue while attempting the Atlantic. Rooney transports readers to the world in which the great contest took place, and traces the rise of aviation to its daredevil peak in the early decades of the twentieth century. Recounting a deeply moving adventure, The Big Hop explores why flights like these matter, and why we take to the skies., The 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 flight, made it to Ireland. Celebrated on both continents, the transatlantic contest offered a surge of inspiration--and a welcome distraction--to a public reeling from the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But the seven airmen who made the attempt were quickly forgotten, their achievement overshadowed by the solo Atlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart years later. In The Big Hop , David Rooney grants the pioneering aviators of 1919 the spotlight they deserve. From Harry Hawker, the pilot who as a young man had watched Houdini fly over his native Australia, to the engineer Ted Brown, a US citizen who joined the Royal Flying Corps, Rooney traces the lives of the unassuming men who performed extraordinary acts in the sky. Mining evocative first-person accounts and aviation archives, Rooney also follows the participants' journeys: learning to fly on flimsy airplanes made of timber struts and varnished fabric; surviving the bloodiest war that Europe had ever yet seen; and battling faulty coolant systems, severe storms, and extreme fatigue while attempting the Atlantic. Rooney transports readers to the world in which the great contest took place, and traces the rise of aviation to its daredevil peak in the early decades of the twentieth century. Recounting a deeply moving adventure, The Big Hop explores why flights like these matter, and why we take to the skies.
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