Rare Autographs, Books and Manuscripts
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A signed photograph of his yaught and a TLS 10/18/34- with original transmittal envelope from this early English Aviator and World Cup Yacht racer. Sopwith challenged the America's Cup with his J-class yachts, Endeavour, in 1934, and with Endeavour II in 1937. Both yachts were designed by Charles E. Nicholson. Sopwith funded, organised and helmed the yachts. He did not win the Cup but he became a Cup legend by nearly winning it in 1934. He was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1995.
Walter Hinton ANS on the back of a photograph of him and his plane.-1932- original envelope.Walter T. Hinton (10 November 1888 - 28 October 1981) was a United States aviator.Hinton achieved fame as the pilot of the Curtiss NC flying boat "NC-4", the first aircraft to make a transatlantic flight, in 1919.Hinton's aeronautic adventures during the 1920s include exploring the Arctic by balloon, and a wayward flight from Rockaway, Queens to Moose Factory, Ontario in the winter, which caused a month-long hike to civilization. Hinton made the first flight from North America to South America (on the second try—he floated on a wing in shark infested waters off Cuba for a while at the end of the first try), and explored the Amazon Rainforest by hydroplane.
Thomas Sopwith & Walter Hinton Aviators/Explorers
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