Book Title: The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
Author: David Rooney, a historian and museum curator who worked at the London Science Museum
Publication: Released June 3, 2025 THE BIG HOP | Kirkus Reviews by W. W. Norton & Company (US) and Chatto & Windus (UK)
Subject: The book tells the story of Britain's John Alcock and Arthur Brown, who made the first transatlantic crossing in 1919 in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber THE BIG HOP | Kirkus Reviews. The journey was part of a race sponsored by a British newspaper, with four teams competing ‘The Big Hop’ by David Rooney review | History Today, though only Alcock and Brown completed the crossing successfully after 16 hours in an open cockpit THE BIG HOP | Kirkus Reviews.
Reception: The book has received positive reviews, with John Lancaster calling it "a vivid and utterly compelling account" The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future: Rooney, David: 9781324050964: Amazon.com: Books and praising Rooney as "an expert storyteller with a big heart" The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future: Rooney, David: 9781324050964: Amazon.com: Books.
The book aims to restore recognition to these pioneering aviators whose achievement was later overshadowed by Charles Lindbergh's solo flight in 1927.
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