Download or read book Newfoundland to Europe Air Race - Centennial Edition written by D. H. Crocker and published by Hobby Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newfoundland to Europe Air Race is a fictionalized version of the events and characters involved in the race for the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by aircraft as related to me by my father when I was a young boy. A group of young boys are swept up in the excitement that swirled around the frantic preparations for the Greatest Air Race of them all. Ike is a boy born and raised on the wrong side of town, suddenly thrust into manhood by the untimely death of his father. He finds a distraction from his pain when he and his young friends assume a pivotal roll in history by following and supporting the rival air race teams.