A BROKEN PROPELLER. Baz Bagby and America's First Transcontinental Air Race

Книга "A BROKEN PROPELLER. Baz Bagby and America's First Transcontinental Air Race". A Broken Propeller is the story of America's first transcontinental air race. Pilots in this dangerous adventure flew WWI planes with open cockpits and no [link] October 1919 fifty-nine pilots competed in a round trip race that began simultaneously on Long Island and in San Francisco with predetermined stops 150 miles apart at airfields across the United States. Newspapers gave it front-page press: who was ahead, who was missing, who made an unexpected emergency landing, who crashed, and who was felled by blinding [link] race was conceived by Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell to promote the future of flight in the United States, but all did not go as planned. There were 54 crashes and seven deaths. Pilots landed on rooftops, in Lake Eire, and the front-runner had his dog with him. The predominant plane in the race, the DH-4, had life-threatening flaws. Pilots faced heavy rain, gale winds, snow, ice, and tre...