Hopping the Pond: The Normalization of North Atlantic Civil Aviation from its Origins to the Rise of the Jumbo Jet, 1919-1970

• Main Author: Nicklin, Sean
• Other Authors: Kranakis, Eda
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2016
• Subjects: civil aviation; commercial flight; North Atlantic; transatlantic; aircraft; infrastructure; history of technology; history of flight; Endeavour
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/35298; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-256

Flight across the North Atlantic is a routine process now, with thousands of flights carrying millions of passengers between Europe and North America every year quickly, safely, and affordably. By some measures it remains the busiest international flight corridor in the world and the most profitable...