进入未知的天空：一个不太可能的团队，一场大胆的比赛，以及首次环球飞行

English | ISBN: 0063371405 | 2024 | EPUB | 304 pages | 12 MB

David K. Randall, "Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World"

“David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was.” — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours

“Thrilling reading…an account filled with unexpected layers of intrigue. Recommend Into Unknown Skies to Erik Larson fans.” —Booklist

The unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European rivals, created technology that changed aviation, and convinced America that its future was in the sky.

In the early 1920s, America’s faith in aviation was in shambles. Twenty years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, most Americans believed airplanes were for delivering the mail or performing daredevil stunts in front of crowds. The dream of commercial air travel remained just that. Even the American military was a skeptic—rather than pay to bring its planes back from Europe following World War I, the War Department chose to burn most of them instead.

All that changed with a single race in 1924. It was not just any race, though—it was a race to become the first to circle the globe in an airplane, pitting a team of underdog American pilots against the best aviators in the world from England, Italy, Portugal, France, and Argentina. Rooted in the same daring spirit that pushed early twentieth-century explorers to attempt crossings of the Antarctic ice or locate the source of the Nile, this race was an adventure unlike anything the world had seen before. The obstacles were daunting—from experimental planes, to dangerous landings in uncharted territory, to the simple navigational gauges that could lead pilots hundreds of miles off course. Failure seemed all but guaranteed—the suspense less about who would win than how many would perish for the honor of being the first.

Now on the race’s centennial, award-winning author David K. Randall tells the story of this riveting, long-forgotten race. Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease, and ultimately triumph, Into Unknown Skies demonstrates how one race returned America to aviation greatness. A story of underdog teammates, bold exploration, and American ingenuity, Into Unknown Skies is an untold adventure tale showing the power of flight to bring the world together.

中文| ISBN:0063371405 | 2024 | EPUB | 304页| 12 MB David K.Randall，《未知的天空：一支不太可能的队伍、一场大胆的比赛和首次环球飞行》 “大卫·K·兰德尔（David K.Randall）创造了第一场以挑战死亡的荣耀环游地球的飞行比赛，由一群不太可能的英雄组成，他们在任何人知道那是什么之前就拥有了正确的东西。”——《纽约时报》畅销书《迷失在香格里拉》（Lost in Shangri-La）和《13小时》（13 Hours）的作者米切尔·祖科夫（Mitchell Zuckoff） “令人兴奋的阅读……一个充满意想不到的阴谋层的故事。向埃里克·拉森的粉丝推荐《未知的天空》。”——书单 1924年首次乘飞机环游世界的令人难以置信的历史，这是一场扣人心弦的比赛，让处于劣势的美国飞行员与资金更雄厚的欧洲竞争对手展开对决，创造了改变航空业的技术，并让美国相信它的未来就在天空中。 20世纪20年代初，美国对航空业的信心一片混乱。在莱特兄弟首次飞行20年后，大多数美国人认为飞机是用来运送邮件或在人群面前表演惊险特技的。商业航空旅行的梦想仍然是这样。就连美国军方也持怀疑态度——在第一次世界大战后，陆军部选择烧毁大部分飞机，而不是花钱从欧洲运回飞机。 1924年的一场比赛改变了这一切。不过，这不仅仅是一场比赛——这是一场成为第一个乘坐飞机环游世界的比赛，让一群处于劣势的美国飞行员与来自英国、意大利、葡萄牙、法国和阿根廷的世界上最好的飞行员对决。植根于推动二十世纪早期探险家尝试穿越南极冰层或定位尼罗河源头的大胆精神，这场比赛是一场前所未有的冒险。这些障碍令人望而生畏——从实验飞机到在未知领域的危险着陆，再到可能导致飞行员偏离航线数百英里的简单导航仪表。失败似乎几乎是必然的——与其说谁会赢，不如说有多少人会为了成为第一个而灭亡。 现在是这场比赛的百年纪念日，获奖作家大卫·K·兰德尔告诉了这场引人入胜、被遗忘已久的比赛的故事。通过超现实的人物、危险的着陆、疾病和最终的胜利，《未知的天空》展示了一个种族如何让美国重返航空业的伟大。《未知天空》是一个关于弱势队友、大胆探索和美国人聪明才智的故事，是一个不为人知的冒险故事，展示了飞行将世界团结在一起的力量。

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