FLIGHT

America’s finest aviation story in the hands of our finest aviation historian The Flight is Dan Hampton’s biggest mostdramatic book yet.On the morning of May 20 1927 a little known pilot named Charles Lindbergh waited to take off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island. He was determined to claim the $25000 Orteig Prize promised to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris—a contest that had already claimed six men’s lives. Just twenty-five years old Lindbergh had never before flown over water. Yet thirty-three hours later his single-engine monoplane The Spirt of St. Louis touched down in Paris. Overnight Charles Lindbergh became the most famous aviator of all time.The Flight is a long overdue flyer’s-eye-view look at Lindbergh’s legendary journey. Decorated fighter pilot and bestselling author Dan Hampton offers a unique appreciation for Lindbergh’s accomplishment: Hampton has flown the exact same route many times knowledge that informs and shapes The Flight. Relying upon a trove of primary sources including Lindbergh’s own personal diary and writingsHampton crafts a dramatic narrative of a challenging death-defying feat that many had believed was impossible. HarperCollins US Review CopiesMoving hour by hour Hampton recounts Lindbergh’s uncertainty over his equipment and his courage as he traverses the vast darkness of the Atlantic with no radar. Moving between the sky and ground Hampton intersperses the tale of the flight with Lindbergh’s personal history as well as some of the stories of those waiting for him on the ground praying he would make it safely across.