Around The World In 175 Days

Author : Carroll V. Glines
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781944466022

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Around the World in 175 Days by Carroll V. Glines Pdf

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, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four Douglas World Cruisers, each carrying a pilot and a mechanic, took off from Seattle in April 1924, flying west to circle the globe; one additional plane was held in reserve. Four of the men and two of the planes completed the flight in September 1924 and, miraculously, all eight men survived, even though one plane had crashed in the Alaskan mountains and another had ditched in the Atlantic. The airmen had triumphed over the weather extremes of Arctic Alaska and the desert Middle East, numerous primitive landing sites in rough terrain, and maintenance and supply problems that persisted despite the coordinated efforts of land- and sea-based support personnel from the Army Air Service, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard. Glines captures the drama of the journey, from the careful behind-the-scenes planning through the airmen's harrowing in-flight experiences to the mission's culmination in triumph. The success charted the future of the Army Air Service's worldwide aircraft deployment and paved the way for long-distance commercial air travel.

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416596202

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Round About the Earth by Joyce E. Chaplin Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 2012.

Author : John Norberg
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781612496108

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Wings of Their Dreams by John Norberg Pdf

Throughout 100-plus years of flight, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation's pioneers and trailblazers across the twentieth century, a path from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility and beyond. The book reminds readers that the first and last men to land on the moon first trekked across the West Lafayette, Indiana, campus on their journeys into the heavens and history. This is the story of an aeronautic odyssey of imagination, science, engineering, technology, adventure, courage, danger, and promise. It is the story of the human spirit taking flight, entwined with Purdue's legacy in aviation's history.

Author : Kevin Riordan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030962418

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Modernist Circumnavigations by Kevin Riordan Pdf

This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism.

Author : Wei Chen
Publisher : Advantage Media Group
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781599324029

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Around The World in 69 Days by Wei Chen Pdf

This is not a book just about flying a single engine airplane around the world. This is the book about identifying the “Big Hairy Audacious Goal” in our lives and finding a way to accomplish it through focus and discipline. The author accomplished three dreams: the dream of coming to the U.S. and getting an MBA degree (when he hardly spoke any English); the dream of starting a company and becoming a self-made millionaire (when he had no money, no business plan, no investors, no social network, and no experience); the dream of becoming the first Chinese citizen to fly a single-engine airplane around the world (when he had barely 200 hours of flying time and two years of flying experiences). By sharing these stories, the author challenges everyone to think about one question: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn’t fail?”

Author : Larry Alex Taunton
Publisher : Fidelis Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642935936

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Around the World in (More Than) 80 Days by Larry Alex Taunton Pdf

A battle rages for the heart and soul of America. For one group, the idea of “American Exceptionalism” is dead. Some never tire of lecturing us about how out-of-step America is with the rest of the world and how she needs to get with it. Worse, America, they say, is bad for the world. Her freedom and prosperity are merely historical accidents. Of course, this narrative presupposes there are better places in the world to live. Are there? Were Alec Baldwin to leave the country permanently as he once promised, where would he go?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32435029888484

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Airman by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Army Air Forces. Historical Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105046926858

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The Official Pictorial History of the AAF by United States. Army Air Forces. Historical Office Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : OSU:32437121697771

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Winged Crusade by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112087196041

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Special Bibliography Series by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Parker Dawson,Mark D. Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000102104613

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Realizing the Dream of Flight by Virginia Parker Dawson,Mark D. Bowles Pdf

Author : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0160831512

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Realizing the Dream of Flight by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Pdf

These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428994256

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Air & Space Power Journal win 02 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IOWA:31858041795703

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Air Force Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sean Seyer
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421440545

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Sovereign Skies by Sean Seyer Pdf

A pathbreaking history of the regulatory foundations of America's twentieth-century aerial preeminence. Today, the federal government possesses unparalleled authority over the atmosphere of the United States. Yet when the Wright Brothers inaugurated the air age on December 17, 1903, the sky was an unregulated frontier. As increasing numbers of aircraft threatened public safety in subsequent decades and World War I accentuated national security concerns about aviation, the need for government intervention became increasingly apparent. But where did authority over the airplane reside within America's federalist system? And what should US policy look like for a device that could readily travel over physical barriers and political borders? In Sovereign Skies, Sean Seyer provides a radically new understanding of the origins of American aviation policy in the first decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on the concept of mental models from cognitive science, regime theory from political science, and extensive archival sources, Seyer situates the development, spread, and institutionalization of a distinct American regulatory idea within its proper international context. He illustrates how a relatively small group of bureaucrats, military officers, industry leaders, and engineers drew upon previous regulatory schemes and international principles in their struggle to define government's relationship to the airplane. In so doing, he challenges the current domestic-centered narrative within the literature and delineates the central role of the airplane in the reinterpretation of federal power under the commerce clause. By placing the origins of aviation policy within a broader transnational context, Sovereign Skies highlights the influence of global regimes on US policy and demonstrates the need for continued engagement in world affairs. Filling a major gap in the historiography of aviation, it will be of interest to readers of aviation, diplomatic, and legal history, as well as regulatory policy and American political development.