
Название: Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight
Автор: Carroll V. Glines, Walter J. Boyne
Издательство: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB, PDF
Страниц: 210
Размер: 18,6 Mb
Язык: English
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.