APRIL 13.1844 . New York Sun writer Edgar Allen Poe created a sensation when he wrote a fictitious story about the first "flying machine" to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Poe entirely made up the story of a "steering balloon" that took 75 hours to cross the ocean from Wales and land in Charleston, South Carolina. His lengthy story included excerpts from the journals of fictitious pilots Harrison Ainsworth and Monck Mason, as well as detailed descriptions of how the balloon was constructed. A large crowd gathered at The New York Sun offices to buy copies. It would be 75 more years before pilots actually flew across the Atlantic—and 83 years until Charles A. Lindbergh did it solo in May 1927.
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机译：4月13.1日。纽约太阳作家埃德加·艾伦·坡（Edgar Allen Poe）写了一个关于第一个跨越大西洋的“飞行器”的虚构故事，引起了轰动。坡爱伦·费恩（Poe）完全用一个“转向气球”来讲述这个故事，这个气球花了75个小时从威尔士越过海洋，降落在南卡罗来纳州的查尔斯顿。他冗长的故事包括虚拟飞行员哈里森·安斯沃思（Harrison Ainsworth）和蒙克·梅森（Monck Mason）的日记摘录，以及有关气球的构造的详细说明。一大群人聚集在《纽约太阳报》办公室购买副本。飞行员实际飞越大西洋还需要75年，而查尔斯·林德伯格（Charles A. Lindbergh）于1927年5月单飞则需要83年。
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