The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (652 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078646447X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Benjamin J. Burns is a professor and director of the journalism program at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a former executive editor of the Detroit News.
"Where Luck and Choice Meet" according to LawLin. I found this to be more than a lively true-life adventure story--it demonstrated to me the impact of both luck and choice in the life of a man who had a deep need for adventure. Luck--the bad kind--might've contributed to Hinton's dad backing out of a promise he made to his son in 1906. But choice--ultimately an excellent one--found Hinton reacting to that broken promise by packing his bags and leaving his home in Ohio's farm country at the age of 16, looking for excitement. Burns' account of the first flight across the Atlantic, with Hinton as pilot, is compelling, full of t. A True Revelation Black Creek View Everyone knows that Jimmy Stewart, er, Charles Lindbergh was the first to successfully fly across the Atlantic, right? Not so! Having been an aviation enthusiast since early childhood, I thought I knew most everything about planes, pilots and aviation firsts. How fascinating to find that one of the most revered feats in aviation history was accomplished not in a single engine monoplane by one man but rather in a four engine biplane flying boat with Walter Hinton at the controls aided by a crew of five.This book is an absolute must for any aviation enthusiast's library. It's f. "Really interesting!!!" according to Blakely Meyers. I just got a copy of this book and have started reading it. It is well written with lots of details. I really like some of the pictures - it is amazing to me that Hinton and his navy team were able to cross the Atlantic in that plane and I am enjoying the story of how they accomplished that feat, as well as the more personal side of Walter Hinton's life. Walter Hinton was one of the early pioneers in American aviation and yet not many people know his name.
About the Author Benjamin J. Burns is a professor and director of the journalism program at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a former executive editor of the Detroit News.
Based on more than 40 hours of personal interviews with Hinton, this volume chronicles that first flight and Hinton's other remarkable adventures in aviation--which include being lost in a downed balloon in the Canadian Arctic and believed dead, making the first flight to Rio de Janeiro from New York, pursuing the first aerial exploration of the , and undertaking a nationwide promotion of aviation and airports for the Exchange Clubs in the United States. Walter Hinton was a pilot on the first plane to cross the Atlantic (eight years before Lindbergh)--a four-engine, Navy-Curtiss flying boat with a crew of six, in May 1919. With the dramatic and adventurous story of Hinton, a lost chapter in the history of flight in America is uncovered.