num_pages: 336
description: A gripping and unique in-the-cockpit account of Charles Lindberghs extraordinary first transatlantic flight from New York to Paris by acclaimed aviation historian (Viper Pilot Lords of the Sky) and former fighter pilot Dan Hamptonone of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history (New York Post).Americas finest aviation story in the hands of our finest aviation historian The Flight is Dan Hamptons biggest most dramatic book yet.On the morning of May 20 1927 a little known pilot named Charles Lindbergh waited to take off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island. He was determined to claim the $25000 Orteig Prize promised to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Parisa contest that had already claimed six mens lives. Just twenty-five years old Lindbergh had never before flown over water. Yet thirty-three hours later his single-engine monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis touched down in Paris. Overnight Charles Lindbergh became the most famous aviator of all time.The Flight is a long overdue flyers-eye-view look at Lindberghs legendary journey. Decorated fighter pilot and bestselling author Dan Hampton offers a unique appreciation for Lindberghs accomplishment: Hampton has flown the exact same route many times knowledge that informs and shapes The Flight. Relying upon a trove of primary sources including Lindberghs own personal diary and writings Hampton crafts a dramatic narrative of a challenging death-defying feat that many had believed was impossible.Moving hour by hour Hampton recounts Lindberghs uncertainty over his equipment and his courage as he traverses the vast darkness of the Atlantic with no radar. Moving between the sky and ground Hampton intersperses the tale of the flight with Lindberghs personal history as well as some of the stories of those waiting for him on the ground praying he would make it safely across.
language: English
title: The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's 1927 Trans-Atlantic Crossing
publisher: William Morrow