Wings Across the Pacific

by Terry Gwynn-Jones

Wings Across the Pacific tells the epic struggle of the generation of pilots who made the dream of crossing the Pacific, a reality. The feats of Lindbergh and others who crossed the Atlantic have been more celebrated. But the Pacific was to flying what Everest was to mountain climbing: the biggest, most implacable, most irresistible challenge on earth. To fly the Pacific meant aiming for tiny islands amid seventy million square miles of ocean, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887407439
• ISBN13: 9780887407437
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 11.0"