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One Chance for Glory
First Nonstop Flight Across the Pacific
About the Book
The book is about Clyde Pangborn, a Washington-born early aviator who accomplished feats far exceeding those of persons such as Charles Lindberg but received nearly zero recognition for his deeds.
Title and Genre
One Chance for Glory is a historical fiction book about Pangborn being the first to fly the 4,500 miles nonstop across the Pacific in 1931.
Summary of the Flight
To achieve this, he had to jettison his landing gear into the ocean shortly after takeoff from Japan, perform an in-flight repair outside the airplane at 17,000 feet at night in frigid October weather, put the airplane into a terrifying dive down to 1,400 feet over the Bering Sea to restart the engine, divert the flight path to avoid collision with Mount Rainer upon arrival in the US, and belly-land (crash land) the airplane on a landing strip cut out of the sagebrush above Wenatchee, Washington.
