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Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight
Carroll V. Glines
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| #1882581 in Books | Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press | 2001-09-17 | 2001-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.27 x.85 x6.29l,1.08 | File type: PDF | 194 pages | ||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| An engaging read about a fascinating story|By Philip A. Thompson|I just finished reading USAF Col. (ret.) Carroll Glines's excellent book about the U.S. Army Air Service's round-the-world flight in 1924 (the first circumnavigation of the Earth by airplane), and just couldn't put it down until I had finished it. It's strange the degree to which that accomplishment - certainly o|About the Author|Carroll V. Glines began flying in 1939, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, and retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1968. He is currently curator of the Doolittle Military Aviation Library at the University of Texas at Dallas. His previous
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.
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