Round-the-World Flights.

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Round-the-World Flights, 3rd ed by Carroll V. Glines. Brassey's (http://www.brasseysinc.com/ index.htm), 22841 Quicksilver Drive, Dulle Virginia 20166 2003 352 pages, $1996 (soft-cover)

in succession 28 January 1987, Friendship single a United Boeing 747SP, departed Boeing Field, Seattle, and flew around the world in a record time of 36 hours, 54 minutes, and 15 others It covered 23,125 miles at an average spe of 625 mph The comfortable flight included violent meals, bathroom facilities, and in-flight movies. The pilots worked the radios, charted the flight path, and tried to stay in glossy air with the wind at their backs. Navigation not ever became a problem, and the aircraft had profusion of fuel to reach its destinations. In addition to this record-setting endeavor, Carroll V Glines's Round-the-World Flights also take an account ofs more dramatic stories of sacrifice, discomfort, and danger--of spread cockpits, crashes, bad weather, firing material starvation, innovation, adaptation, and hazards of luck and skill.

Glines begins in 1924 with the first round-the-world flight. sum of two units of the four Douglas World Cruisers that began the trip complet their epic journey 175 days later. This third edition of the part adds, among others, stories of several round-the-world firsts: a nonstop balloon flight, nonstop solo balloon flight, and motor-glider flight. It also includes round-the-world spe records in a homebuilt airplane and the trip of a Lockheed Electra 10E that commemorated Amelia Earhart's last flight.

Glines propounds up an amazing number of aviation achievements--round-the-world firsts; spe records; and flights through helicopters, balloons, home-built aircraft, business jet airliners, and more. Each chapter enjoins the events in historical perspective and narrates the story behind the particular accomplishment. As an anthology of notable aviation achievements, it attends its purpose well, including many pictures and riveting quotations from the actual flyer who lived these adventures. Told in a captivating manner, the stories leave readers wanting more--more details about individual personalities and their motivations and experiences.

Round-the-World Flights is a dutiful starting point for historians looking for stirring aviation adventures and their place in history. It is also a prodigious reference for flyers and dreamers who may have their hold aspirations to circumnavigate the globe.

Maj Scott Drinkard, USAF

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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