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Iron Aviator: Cal Rodgers and the First North American Transcontinental Flight

Iron Aviator: Cal Rodgers and the First North American Transcontinental Flight

Wehner, Christopher C.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAviation

ISBN10: 1476693226
ISBN13: 9781476693224
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 19 2024
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1911, a legally deaf, beginner pilot with limited training and only 90 minutes of solo flying experience took on newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's $50,000 challenge to be the first aviator to fly across America in 30 days or less. The transcontinental flight was considered by most to be an extremely dangerous and nearly impossible feat, considering roughly half of all pilots perished in the early years of aviation. Less than a decade since the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, a time when less than two percent of the country had even seen an airplane, Calbraith Cal Perry Rodgers drew tens of thousands of people to watch him fly. He survived a grueling journey, making history by becoming the first person to complete an east-to-west transcontinental flight.

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