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

by David Rooney

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. Only one team, after a death-defying sixteen-hour journey, made it to Ireland. The Atlantic flights of Charles Lindbergh in 1927 and Amelia Earhart in 1932 pushed this earlier contest into the shadows, but The Big Hop grants the pioneering airmen of 1919 the spotlight they deserve...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324050969
• ISBN13: 9781324050964
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages