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Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific

Race to Hawaii: The 1927 Dole Air Derby and the Thrilling First Flights That Opened the Pacific

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaAviation20th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $26.99

ISBN10: 0912777257
ISBN13: 9780912777252
Publisher: Chicago Review Pr
Published: Aug 1 2018
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Today, a trip to Hawaii is a simple six-hour flight from the West Coast, but almost a century ago, it was a nerve-wracking and twenty-six-hour journey across 2,400 miles of the open Pacific. Race to Hawaii chronicles the thrilling first flights during the Golden Age of Aviation, a time when new airplanes traveled farther and faster but were also unreliable, fragile, and hampered by primitive air navigation equipment. The US Navy tried first, sending flying boats winging toward the islands. Next came Army Air Corps aviators and a civilian pilot, who informally raced each other to Hawaii in the weeks after Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic to land the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris.

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