{"product_id":"the-flying-firsts-of-walter-hinton-from-the-1919-transatlantic-flight-to-the-arctic-and-the-amazon-9780786464470","title":"The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Benjamin J. Burns\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. 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 Amazon, and undertaking a nationwide promotion of aviation and airports for the Exchange Clubs in the United States. With the dramatic and adventurous story of Hinton, a lost chapter in the history of flight in America is uncovered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47576937169047,"sku":"9780786464470","price":2830.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786464470.webp?v=1774902114","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-flying-firsts-of-walter-hinton-from-the-1919-transatlantic-flight-to-the-arctic-and-the-amazon-9780786464470","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}