Particularly valuable for the history of flight in the period were the similarly named Aviation: The Early Years by Peter Almond and Aviation: The Pioneer Years edited by Ben Mackworth-Praed. Very good on the technical side of matters is L. F. E. Coombs’s Control in the Sky: The Evolution and History of the Aircraft Cockpit. Much additional detail came from Graham Wallace’s The Flight of Alcock & Brown, Robert de La Croix’s They Flew the Atlantic, and the semi-official American Aircraft Year Books for 1925–1930, published by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America, Inc. Hiram Bingham’s
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