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Chasing Icarus
the seventeen days in 1910 that forever changed American aviation
By Mortimer, Gavin
- ISBN
- 978-0-80271-711-5
- Publisher
- New York : Walker & Co, 2009.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on May 15, 2009
British author Mortimer (The Great Swim) persuasively argues that three aeronautic events in 1910 vouchsafed the primacy of U.S. aviation and the triumph of heavier-than-air flight. Interweaving the events-Walter Wellman's failed attempt to cross the Atlantic in his dirigible, America; the International Balloon Cup Race, which embarked from St. Louis; and the country's first international aircraft contest...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
