Round-The-World Flights
Glines, Carroll V.
First Edition. First Printing.
Ever since the first ascent in a hot air balloon in France in 1783, men and women have vied for the honor of being first or fastest to move between two points on the earth's surface. The first round-the-world aeronautical trip occurred only twenty years after the Wrights brothers' flight - in 1924, Army Air Service pilots circumnavigated the earth in open cockpit single-engine aircraft, a feat never again achieved.
Here for the first time in one volume are the most breathtaking tales of round-the-world airtravels. Noted aviation writer Carroll V. Glines vividly describes how these courageous pilots raced against time and over-came difficulties such as unpredictable weather conditions, unreliable instruments, and faltering engines.
You will meet many fascinating true-life characters, including:
• Wiley Post, a one-eyed kid from Oklahoma with only an eighth grade education who went on to become the first man to fly around the earth twice by airplane and the first to do it alone.
• Howard Hughes, who parlayed an inheritance into one of the largest fortunes ever and who used his natural design skills to create a flying laboratory that set a world-circling speed record in 1938.
• Max Conrad, the Flying Grandfather, who logged 53,000 hours of flying time and established many records along the way.
• Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly around the world solo.
• Celebrities Arnold Palmer and Arthur Godfrey who have set several records for business Jets.
Hardcover with dust jacket
288 Seiten / pages
Photos
good condition, dust jacket with tears
New York - Cincinnati - Toronto - London-Melbourne - 1982 - Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Art.Nr. 14396
