A Broken Propeller: Baz Bagby and America's First Transcontinental Air Race
Language: English
Published by New Academia Publishing/Vellum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2017
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- Softcover
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Author's father was one of only eight of 59 entrants to finish the 1919 transcontinental race on time. He flew in World War I and World War II and knew Generals Mitchell, Spaatz, Doolittle and Eisenhower. 158 pages.
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- Title
- A Broken Propeller: Baz Bagby and America's First Transcontinental Air Race
- Author
- Goerke, Betty
- Publisher
- New Academia Publishing/Vellum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0998643394
- ISBN 13
- 9780998643397
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Aviation-Biography, Aviation-Pioneers/History, Aviation-World War II
A Broken Propeller is the story of America’s first transcontinental air race. Pilots in this dangerous adventure flew WWI planes with open cockpits and no parachutes.
In October 1919 fifty-nine pilots competed in a round trip race that began simultaneously on Long Island and in San Francisco with predetermined stops 150 miles apart at airfields across the United States. Newspapers gave it front-page press: who was ahead, who was missing, who made an unexpected emergency landing, who crashed, and who was felled by blinding snowstorms.
The race was conceived by Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell to promote the future of flight in the United States, but all did not go as planned. There were 54 crashes and seven deaths. Pilots landed on rooftops, in Lake Eire, and the front-runner had his dog with him. The predominant plane in the race, the DH-4, had life-threatening flaws. Pilots faced heavy rain, gale winds, snow, ice, and treacherous landing fields. As a result they lost their way, and made courageous and foolhardy decisions. There were comic moments, and poignant ones. The future head of the Air Force, Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was a feisty participant. The heroes were the ranchers and farmers who helped downed airmen with food, lodging and fuel.
There has never been a book about this extraordinary moment in American history. The author is fortunate to have what earlier reports lacked: memoirs of pilots, plus the charming and humorous letters and log of a participant in the race, her father, one of only eight who completed the race. 1st Lt. Ralph (Baz) Bagby was a former professional baseball player and an MIT graduate.
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Review
“From an accidental attic discovery of a treasure trove of century-old letters, family history morphs via Betty Goerke's trenchant and lucid pen into a most exciting, brief history of the initial heroic and tragic trans-continental flights across the US. Flying in open cockpit planes with no parachutes or safeguards of any kind, the men who participated were courageous (some would say foolish) beyond measure. A Broken Propeller brings to life these men and this heroic, sometimes tragic race.”
—David Goldfrank, Professor of History, Georgetown University.
“All interested in the thrills and spills of flying WWI biplanes in the major flying event of 1919―The Transcontinental Air Race―or in the early history of Crissy Field at the Presidio of San Francisco, will find A Broken Propeller well worth their time.”
—Gary Widman, Past President, Presidio Historical Society.
“A riveting and uniquely authoritative portrayal of the 1919 Great Transcontinental Air Race. That event, then eagerly followed, hour by hour, by the entire country but until now almost forgotten, was a milestone in America’s climb from near the bottom of World Aviation to the premier place it would occupy by the early 1930s. As historian Betty Goerke dramatically illustrates the race was fraught with carnage, wreckage and disaster."
—Herbert M. Friedman, Author, pilot.
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