Flying the Atlantic in sixteen hours

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown

with a discussion of aircraft in commerce and transportation

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, hardcover, with twenty-one illustrations from photographs
endpaper and titel-page foxed

FLYING THE ATLANTIC IN SIXTEEN HOURS

CHAPTER I

SOME PRELIMINARY EVENTS

"After me cometh a builder. Tell him I, too, have known."
KIPLING.

IT is an awful thing to be told that one has made history, or done something historie. Such accusation implies the duty of living up to other people's expectations; and merely an ordinary person who has been lucky, like myself, cannot fulfil such expectations.
Sir John Alcock and I have been informed so often, by the printed and spoken word, that our achievement in making the first non-stop transatlantic flight is an important event in the history of aviation that almost-but not quite- I have come to believe it. And this half-belief makes me very humble, when I consider the splendid company of pioneers who, without due .................................................