Название: Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation
Автор: Gavin Mortimer
Издательство: Walker Books
ISBN: 0802719937
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 320
Размер: 2,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In October of 1910, only four years before the outbreak of World War I, nobody knew whether planes, dirigibles, or balloons would prevail. Within a period of seventeen days, this question was on prime display, as the dirigible America tried to cross the Atlantic; huge crowds gathered at horse-racing tracks to watch airplanes race around overhead; and ballooning teams from around the world took off from St. Louis in pursuit of the Bennett International Balloon Cup, given to the balloon that traveled the farthest.