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2) Wings across the Pacific: the courageous aviators who challenged and conquered the greatest ocean
Author
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
""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...