This is well worth looking at for those interested in the race

Unfortunately, it’s misleadingly titled “The Story of the Great Transatlantic Air Race,” and it’s no such thing. It’s the story of one part of the GTAL.

Granted the Phantoms were the crowd-pleasers, but I wished many times during the race that I could have flown 1,100 mph between free aerial refuelings, as I sat grinding along between two 240-hp Continentals, feeding fuel through garden hoses and hardware-store spigots from two 55-gallon drums in the cabin…