They sailed from Liverpool three days later, but the news traveled long ahead of them. On the boat they were lionized. Upon their arrival in New York they were idolized.
They were treated as conquering heroes returning to their native land. And indeed that is what they were. For they had conquered not only almost every conceivable obstacle, including international intrigue, but they had established the fact that American grit could master the air and link the Old and the New Worlds in a quicker route than ever before was known.