Excerpt from The International Photographer, Vol. 4: January, 1933 On August 23, 1932, another plane, The City of Richmond took off on its mission of high adventure. It carried a crew Of eight, among whom were Norman Alley, pioneer of newsreel cameramen on transatlantic flying. Norman was setting out to fulfill his assignment of recording for the first time in history an actual pictorial record of trail blazing by way of the air over the treacherous unknown spaces of the Atlantic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.