Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight by Carroll V. Glines
English | May 10th, 2016 | ISBN: 156098967X, 1944466002 | 210 pages | EPUB | 8.84 MB
American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight.