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The great air race : glory, tragedy, and the dawn of American aviation
Item details
- ISBN: 9781631496370
- ISBN: 1631496379
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-330) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: The air service. The honeymoon special -- Willie -- The Western front -- Aftermath -- The flying parson -- Praeger -- "The greatest airplane race ever flown" -- Spaatz -- "Sure death if motor stops on the takeoff" -- Part II: The reliability test. "Interesting happenings" -- No parachutes -- "God's given children" -- "Snow hurricane" -- Rain -- Time and space -- Hungry hogs and a telegraph pole -- Spaatz vs. Kiel -- Salduro -- Hello Frisco! -- Roosevelt Field -- Part III: Triumph. Donaldson and Hartney -- "The man of a hundred wounds" -- Homeward bound -- A telegram from Omaha -- Buffalo -- The mechanic -- Victory -- Flying blind -- Three horses -- Part IV: Foundation. A sour parting -- The Woodrow Wilson Airway -- Epilogue -- 2019. |
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