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The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the journey that made Charles Lindbergh a hero. The race to help make the first nonstop journey between NY and Paris enticed a few of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and less popular Charles Lindbergh who acquired the $25,000 Orteig Award in 1927 for his history-making single journey in the Soul of St. Louis. Sketching on many previously overlooked sources, Bak offers a fresh go through the personalities that made-up this epic air race - a dangerous competition that culminated in one of the 20th century's most fascinating personal achievements and turned Charles Lindbergh in to the first international hero of the modern age group.
- Examines the amazing life and ethnical impact of Charles Lindbergh, one of the iconic information of the 20th hundred years, and his legendary trans-Atlantic journey that captured the world's creativeness.
- Explores the love of soaring during aviation's Golden Era of the 1920s, the long lasting mystique of the aviator, and fast technological improvements that made for a paradigm switch in human perception of the world.
- Filled with colorful heroes from early on aviation history, including Charles Nungesser, Igor Sikorsky, René Fonck, Richard Byrd, and Paul Tarascon.
