Chasing Horizons: The Air Race that Changed the World is much more than the adventurous story of six countries and the race to fly around the world first. It is a forgotten saga involving the most important flying machine in history.
Chasing Horizons:
The Air Race that Changed the World
IN 1924 THERE WAS A WORLD AIR RACE.
THERE HAS BEEN NO GREATER RACE IN HISTORY.
ITS RESULTS CHANGED THE DESTINY OF HUMANKIND.
American Race Airplanes Lowell Smith Jim and Jamie Bolander
Chasing Horizons is your ticket to fly with the forgotten pilots who changed the course of history by daring to go where no one had gone before. To experience their timeless story is to reconnect to the greatness of the American dream and the infinite expanse of the human spirit.
Chasing Horizons is the true story of the great air race of 1924 as told from the perspective of the four American pilots who took part in it. It is a historical novel concerning a race between six countries to see who could fly around the world first: A race that took six months to complete and was followed by every newspaper in the world.
Chasing Horizons is written by the great nephew of the US Army pilot in charge of United States’ attempt at winning the race. It is a story written in response to a daughter questioning her father on how her great-great uncle could be the central character of perhaps the greatest adventure of all time, yet nobody know his name. Chasing Horizons is a story of adrenaline and courage, hardship and triumph, dedication and perseverance.
In 1989, PBS, as part of their “The American Experience” series, made a hour-long documentary entitled “The Great Air Race of 1924”.
Upon seeing the documentary, a critic at the Chicago Sun Times, commented: “This is a great yarn, rivaling the fictional exploits of Indiana Jones.”
Does Indiana Jones…
… meet with up with Beading Bees in Siam or native War Sampans in Vietnam (French Indochina)?
…endure Airplane crashes in Alaska, India, Vietnam or Greenland?
…meet with Presidents (Unities States, France, Iceland) and mobs of Japanese geisha girls?
…con Aleut chiefs for food or deal with cow difficulties in Calcutta?
…make secret excursions into the Soviet Union?
…experience riverboat crashes in Rangoon or sandstorms swallowing up hundreds of British Royal Airmen?
