On July 25th, 1909, Louis Bleriot stunned the world by using an airplane to cross the English Channel. Four years later, Lord Northcliffe, who owned the Daily Mail, made another challenge: £10,000 to the first men to fly the Atlantic from North America to Ireland or England in less than 72 hours. This was distance of over one-hundred times greater than that of the Channel flight and incalculably more dangerous..



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