Harry Hawker and Commander Grieve vanished for six days over the Atlantic. With search parties launched and headlines reading ...

David Rooney's The Big Hop brings to life the daring 1919 race to complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight-an ...

Thirty-year-old Harry Hawker, considered one of the best pilots in the world at that time, was unable to control the plane. It twisted and lunged as if it were a rollercoaster.

Alfred Harmsworth was born to money in leafy Chapelizod in 1865 but his father’s fondness for the drink soon put paid to that. After the family moved to London, young Alfred showed his ambitious ...