Buy this book on-line POST,WILEY & GATTY,HAROLD** : Around the World in Eight Days:The Flight of the Winnie MaeLONDON.JOHN HAMILTON,Nd.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,recased,1st edn.Nd, but c1933.Recased,new eps.8vo,221pp+15pp
facsimile log book of flight in rear.B/w frntis+photographs.Solid,sound and clean.
POST (pilot) and GATTY (Australian expert navigator) starting from New York in the early hours of 23rd June,1931,they flew round the world by way of Harbour Grace, Chester, Berlin, Moscow,Novo-Sibirsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Fairbanks,and Edmonton in 8 days 16 hours 51 minutes:and the first nonstop crossing of the Atlantic was just another leg on the journey.The aircraft was a Lockheed Vega with PRATT and WHITNEY Wasp engine, named Winnie Mae after daughter of Mr F. C. HALL who promoted the flight.Intro by Major Oliver Stewart,M.C., A.F.C.
Account in both pilots own words of an epic pioneer flight.Scarce title.
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