Man's Fight to Fly: Famous World-Record Flights and a Chronology of Aviation

xvi, 366 pp. Front endpapers illustrated with The Aero Club of America; rear endpapers illustrated with world's speed and altitude records. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Foreword by Eddie Rickenbacker. CONTENTS: Foreword; Preface; Prologue; Igor Ivan Sikorsky; Francesco De Pinedo; Richard Evelyn Byrd; Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Clarence D Chamberlin; Hermann Koehl, James C. Fitzmaurice, and Baron Guenther von Huenefeld; Amelia Earhart; John Henry Mears and Charles B.D. Collyer; Wiley Post and Harold Gatty; Russell Norton Boardman and John Lewis Polando; Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr.; James Mattern and Bennett Griffin; James Allan Mollison and Amy Johnson Mollison; Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi; Henry T. (Dick) Merrill and Jack Lambie; Howard Hughes; Leonard Da Vinci to Richard Archbold; Conclusion; Index.