How the greatest air race in history unfolded after the owner of the Daily Mail offered £10,000 to the first person to fly across the Atlantic

After hours of flying in darkness, the men in the cockpit of the Vimy bomber were desperate for dawn. But just as the sun was about to appear, they hit a bank of cloud.

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