Flying Key Brothers and Their Flight to Remember

Owen, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0961483008 / ISBN 13: 9780961483005

Published by Stephen Owen Pub, 1985

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private library liquidation as new unread.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flying Key Brothers and Their Flight to Remember
• Publisher: Stephen Owen Pub
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961483008
• ISBN 13: 9780961483005
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

From author's Preface: "...On July 1, 1935, exactly thirty-two years, six months, and fifteen days after the Wrights' maiden voyage, two pilots in Meridian, Mississippi, proved to the world just how far an airplane could fly and how much it and its pilots could endure. When their tiny, single-engine Curtiss Robin airplane, named the 'Ole Miss' for the state of Mississippi, landed before a wildly enthusiastic crowd of between 30,000 and 40,000 well-wishers, Al and Fred Key had stayed above the earth longer than any other human beings. For 653 hours and 34 minutes - a total of twenty-seven nonstop days and nights - the brothers had circled the city of Meridian. Had their flight been in a straight line, they would have circumnavigated the globe more than twice. Not until 1973 would man stay above the earth longer. It took a NASA Skylab II mission with a multibillion dollar budget to break the Keys' record, and to this day their intra-atmospheric flight record has not been broken for