Lives & Memoirs
Explorer in the Air Service
Hiram Bingham
2026
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The man who brought Machu Picchu to the world spent the Great War teaching men to fly. Hiram Bingham went from Andean ridgelines to the aviation schools of France, and writes about aeroplanes with an explorer's frankness: what they could do, what they could not, and how fast a country had to build an air force out of nothing at all.
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21 chapters
- 1PREFACE7m
- 2FIRST FLIGHTS19m
- 3TORONTO AND THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS16m
- 4WAR FEVER IN WASHINGTON16m
- 5ORGANIZING THE SCHOOLS OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS28m
- 6SELECTING THE FITTEST19m
- 7THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN WASHINGTON30m
- 8OVERSEAS13m
- 9THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A PILOT25m
- 10THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN TOURS25m
- 11A FEW HOURS AT THE FRONT15m
- 12THE THIRD AVIATION INSTRUCTION CENTRE20m
- 13TRAINING AVIATORS33m
- 14ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 127m
- 15ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 226m
- 16OBSERVATION AND NIGHT PURSUIT18m
- 17THE PLANE23m
- 18THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT16m
- 19IMPORTANT ACCESSORIES33m
- 20SHOULD THE GENERAL STAFF CONTROL THE AIR SERVICE?27m
- 21THE FUTURE OF AVIATION26m
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