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Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic (2012)

door Joe Jackson

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"A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during five incredibly tense weeks, that one of those magical windows in history opened, when there occurred a nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit that led so many contenders (from different parts of the world) to all suddenly be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time. Atlantic Fever is about the race; it is a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Richard Byrd, Noel Davis, Stanton Wooster, Clarence Chamberlin, Charles Levine, Rene; Fonck, Charles Nungesser, and François Coli--all had equal weight in the race with Charles Lindbergh. Although the story starts in September 1926 with the crash of the first competitor, or even further back with the 1919 establishment of the prize, its heart is found in a short period, those five weeks from April 14 to May 21, 1927, when the world held its breath and the aviators met their separate fates in the air"--Provided by publisher.… (meer)
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85 years ago this month Charles Lindbergh flew from NYC to Paris in his plane, "The Spirit of St. Louis". Joe Jackson's excellent book deals with the competition for the Ortega Prize and the "Atlantic Fever" that gripped America, Europe, and the rest of the world, in the months leading up to May 1927 and after.

This is a well written book that outlines how the world embraced the concept of aviation and those who flew. The men, and few women, involved with the pursuit of the Ortega Prize were an eclectic group of alpha individuals who were devoted to the science of flight. Many of them paid for their devotion with their lives.

If you have read Scott Berg's biography of Lindbergh or Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis", you will enjoy this new addition to the history of aviation. If you have not, do yourself a favor and read it. Read it and be amazed how, in some ways, little America has not changed at all in 85 years. ( )
  Steve_Walker | Sep 13, 2020 |
4039. Atlantic Fever Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic, by Joe Jackson (read 26 Jun 2012) This 2012 book relates the efforts of aviators to win the Orteig prize of $25,000 offered in 1919 to the first person succeeding in making the Paris-NewYork flight. The accounts of the persons competing and the failures and the success of Lindbergh in accomplishing the feat on May 20 and 21, 1927, is extremely well-told and the account of Lindbergh's flight is the high point of the book. But the book goes on to relate the efforts of persons seeking to emulate the feat, including the successful flight of Clarence Chamberlain of Denison, Iowa on June 4 to 6, 1927. The research is of a high quality and there are ample footnotes and an excellent bibliography. The only reason the book does not get five stars from me is that the chapters after the victory by Lindbergh inevitably lack some of the drama so prominent in the account up to and including the time of the successful flight. I found this book an absorbing memorable experience. ( )
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"A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during five incredibly tense weeks, that one of those magical windows in history opened, when there occurred a nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit that led so many contenders (from different parts of the world) to all suddenly be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time. Atlantic Fever is about the race; it is a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Richard Byrd, Noel Davis, Stanton Wooster, Clarence Chamberlin, Charles Levine, Rene; Fonck, Charles Nungesser, and François Coli--all had equal weight in the race with Charles Lindbergh. Although the story starts in September 1926 with the crash of the first competitor, or even further back with the 1919 establishment of the prize, its heart is found in a short period, those five weeks from April 14 to May 21, 1927, when the world held its breath and the aviators met their separate fates in the air"--Provided by publisher.

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