THE TRANS-ATLANTIC PIONEERS: From First Flights to Supersonic Jets--The Battle to Cross the Atlantic

Every day up to 3,000 aircraft fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Before John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown's epic flight of June 1919 no such journey had been attempted and they could not know what to expect. They were the first but by no means the last of the trans-Atlantic pioneers. 16 pages of photos.