It takes the average reader 4 hours to read Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers by Bruce Hales-Dutton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On 25 July 1909, a dapper, mustachioed Frenchman flying a flimsy, diaphanous airplane changed the status of a great nation. "England is no longer an island," declared the Daily Mail. Lord Northcliffe, the newspapers proprietor, had put up the £1,000 prize for the first flight of the English Channel by the pilot of an airplane. In securing the prize for one of aviations most celebrated firsts, Louis Blériot had beaten his Anglo-French rival Hubert Latham. Six days earlier, Latham had become the first airman to make a forced landing on water when the engine of his elegant Antoinette monoplane...
Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers by Bruce Hales-Dutton is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers aloud.
Cross-Channel Aviation Pioneers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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