The Flying Firsts of Walter Hinton: From the 1919 Transatlantic Flight to the Arctic and the Amazon

By Benjamin J. Burns

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078646447X
• ISBN13: 9780786464470
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher