Lessons From a Forgotten Race Across America’s Skies
A review of "The Great Air Race" by John Lancaster
On the morning of October 8, 1919, dozens of American military pilots took to the skies over Long Island and San Francisco in their primitive World War I-era fighters and embarked on perhaps the most daring aerial adventure yet attempted in the then-short history of aviation: flying from one coast of the United States to the other and back again, simply…
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