All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land hes never covered with an empty fuel tank. Pilot Jack Knight became a national hero by. A mail official summed up the Air Mails daring feat saying, 'Last nights flight means the speedy revolution of mail methods throughout the world. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the races only hope. One eastbound pilot died in a crash over the Nevada desert, and fog kept both westbound planes from leaving Chicago. Due to the heroic efforts of pilot Jack Knight, who flew an extra route, fighting storm and darkness, over unfamiliar terrain from North Platte, Nebraska, to Chicago, the demonstration succeeded. over Americas heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan-a coast-to-coast race. Cover for Jack Knights Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. For the past few years, biplanes like Jacks have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. K-Gr 3-A hundred years ago, Americas lawmakers wanted to end air mail, due to the danger and expense Jack Knight was one of the pilots who participated in a. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope-Jack has six sacks of mail. How did Jack Knight, an airmail pilot, find his way from North Platte, Nebraska, to Chicago, Illinois Post Office staff and the public lit bonfires to help. At the other end, one of the New York planes was forced down by weather over the. Do or die the effort was indeed: One of the California men crashed to his death almost right away. The then Second Assistant Postmaster General, Otto Praeger (generally considered the 'Father of the Air Mail') termed it - 'the most momentous step in the development of civil aviation. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. 22, two westbound mail planes left Hazelhurst and two eastbound ships left San Francisco, with relay teams stationed along the route. But the flight that made Jack Knight immortal in the annals of aviation was the one he made that night of February 23, 1921. High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over Americas heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process.
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