Category 1 is always the greatest level of hazard (that is, it is the most hazardous within that class). If Category 1 is further divided, Category 1A within the same hazard class is a greater hazard than category 1B. Category 2 within the same hazard class is more hazardous than category 3, and so on.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Charles Nungesser and Francois FranÃ§ois coli would have been the first pilots to make a nonstop transatlantic. Flight a pair Of british pilots made such a flight in. 1919
Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone. Working as a mail pilot a year earlier he heard of the $25,000 prize for the first flight between New York and Paris.