{"id":12531,"date":"2023-01-19T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T17:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12531"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T19:18:50","slug":"from-kites-to-flying-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/19\/from-kites-to-flying-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"From Kites to Flying Clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/books\/excerpt-john-lancaster-great-air-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Return to the Early Days of Aviation in This Excerpt From John Lancaster\u2019s \u201cThe Great Air Race\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1919, the nation&#8217;s best aviators embarked on a daring competition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/tobias-carroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TOBIAS CARROLL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1919-cross-country-air-race.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"&quot;The Great Air Race&quot;\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Liveright\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider the speed at which airplanes advanced in the early years of the 20th century. The Wright brothers first took flight in 1903, and by the First World War planes had become an essential part of the conflict. Once the war had ended, a different aspect of this technology came to the foreground: the ability of planes to travel long distances \u2014 and, in the process, captivate audiences on the ground. not for In his new book&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/the-great-air-race-glory-tragedy-and-the-dawn-of-american-aviation-john-lancaster\/18146570\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation<\/em><\/a>, journalist John Lancaster chronicles a race across the continent that took place in 1919. And if you think that some of the planes that existed at the time weren\u2019t necessarily up for the task \u2014 well, you\u2019re not wrong. Lancaster\u2019s book chronicles the bravado, triumphs and tragedies of the aviators who took part in the competition, and we\u2019re pleased to present an excerpt from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/books\/excerpt-john-lancaster-great-air-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at InsideHook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from InsideHook Return to the Early Days of Aviation in This Excerpt From John Lancaster\u2019s \u201cThe Great Air Race\u201d In 1919, the nation&#8217;s best aviators embarked on a daring competition BY&nbsp;TOBIAS CARROLL Liveright\/Getty Images Consider the speed at which airplanes advanced in the early years of the 20th century. The Wright brothers first took flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}