Famous First Flights that Changed History - Sixteen Dramatic Adventures

This book chronicles the 1965 flight made by Lowell Thomas Jr. around the globe from north to south, crossing both Poles, considered to be the last great aviation `first.' To this are added fifteen other aviation firsts, from Bleriot's 1909 flight across the English Channel and Rear Admiral James Reedy's 1963 flight across Antarctica from Africa to Australia, to the thrilling 1928 flight of Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson across the Arctic Ocean and Clyde Pangborn's first flight across the Pacific....