Bibliograph

Jack Knight's brave flight, how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service, by Jill Esbaum ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst

Type

Label

Jack Knight's brave flight, how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service, by Jill Esbaum ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jack Knight's brave flight

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1301380801

Responsibility statement

by Jill Esbaum ; illustrated by Stacy Innerst

Sub title

how one gutsy pilot saved the U.S. Air Mail Service

Summary

"High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air Mail Service in the process. When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race. But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?"--Publisher's website

Target audience

juvenile

Classification