Around the World in 175 Days: The First Round-the-World Flight
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.\ In Around the World in 175 Days,...
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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 daring accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. Booknews Glines, curator of the Doolittle Military Aviation Library (U. of Texas) and retired from the Air Force, tells of the effort six years after World War I to have US planes be the first to encircle the globe—three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. Based on archival records and the diaries of two participants, Glines recounts the dramatic flight west of four Douglas World Cruisers through weather extremes, crash landings, and maintenance and supply problems. The success of the mission opened a way for the Army Air Service's worldwide aircraft deployment as well as for long-distance commercial air travel. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordviiAcknowledgmentsixIntroduction11.The Challenge72.The Preparation223.The Adventure Begins344.Daring the Aleutians465.Seattle Is Lost596.First across the Pacific747.To China and the "Paris of the Orient"848.On to Calcutta959.Paris by Bastille Day10510.Preparing for the North Atlantic11611.North America at Last!12612.Mission Accomplished142Epilogue160AppendixThe Route of the Flight173Notes176Further Reading189Index191
\ From The CriticsGlines, curator of the Doolittle Military Aviation Library (U. of Texas) and retired from the Air Force, tells of the effort six years after World War I to have US planes be the first to encircle the globe—three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. Based on archival records and the diaries of two participants, Glines recounts the dramatic flight west of four Douglas World Cruisers through weather extremes, crash landings, and maintenance and supply problems. The success of the mission opened a way for the Army Air Service's worldwide aircraft deployment as well as for long-distance commercial air travel. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
