Includes, among others, such historical flights across the Atlantic as the very first flight, the first non-stop flight, and the first mass crossing.

Includes index.

Challenge of the Atlantic -- Commander Read and the NC-4, first across -- Alcock, Brown, and the Vimy, first nonstop -- R-34, one airship, four firsts -- Douglas World Cruisers, first East-to-West crossing by airplane -- Lindbergh, The Lone Eagle's solo classic -- Amelia Earhart, three more firsts -- Bremen and the Question mark, more East-West firsts -- Big boats of General Balbo, first mass crossings -- Whirling wings, across by copter, nonstop -- Double Eagle II, at long last, by balloon -- How pioneering paid off -- Chronology.