Ready to Fly
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General Billy Mitchell Ready to Fly |
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||
| Forward by Phil Boyer, President, A. O. P. A. | xii | ||
| Forward by Paul H. Poberezny, Founder and Chairman, E. A. A. | xv | ||
| Introduction (Audio Clip) | xvii | ||
| 1 | Billy (Audio Clip) | (1898-1912) | 1 |
| Mitchell's early career as war hero and Intelligence Chief, birth of aviation | |||
| 2 | The Drums of War (Audio Clip) | (1914-1917) | 17 |
| WWI begins, Mitchell exiled, U.S. enters unprepared, Pershing appointed | |||
| 3 | The Yanks Are Coming (Audio Clip) | (1917-1918) | 35 |
| Allies suffer huge losses, Liberty Engine is born, Eddie Rickenbacker flies | |||
| 4 | The War in the Air (Audio Clip) | (1917-1918) | 53 |
| U.S. struggles to catch up, Tide turns, Mitchell leads Air Armada to triumph | |||
| 5 | Regards to the Navy (Audio Clip) | (1919-1921) | 89 |
| Mitchell builds huge bombs, sinks naval ships, incurs Navy's hatred and wrath | |||
| 6 | Love, War, and Politics (Audio Clip) | (1921-1922) | 125 |
| European trip reveals German rockets, jet engines, Mitchell meets love, plans world flight | |||
| 7 | Preparations Begin (Audio Clip) | (1923) | 151 |
| Donald Douglas designs world flight airplanes, Mitchell marries, exiled to Far East | |||
| 8 | The Chosen (Audio Clip) | (January - March, 1924) | 177 |
| U.S. crew trains, other countries race to beat U.S. team, Japan refuses landing rights | |||
| 9 | Alaska (Audio Clip) | (March - May, 1924) | 203 |
| Through storms, blizzards, U.S. flight leader crashes, Mitchell negotiates with Japanese | |||
| 10 | The Pacific (Audio Clip) | (May - June 1924) | 239 |
| First aerial crossing, escape from Russians, Tokyo Geishas, Japan Exclusion Act passes | |||
| 11 | Through Asia (Audio Clip) | (June, 1924) | 265 |
| Forced jungle landing, war canoes tow, Saigon snubs, Aloha Baker falls in love | |||
| 12 | Through the Mideast (Audio Clip) | (July, 1924) | 289 |
| Wells stows away, oppressive heat, sandstorms, engine explodes in flight, British help | |||
| 13 | Europe (Audio Clip) | (July, 1924) | 303 |
| Bastille Day arrival in Paris, Premier leads millions in cheers, asleep at the Folies Bergere | |||
| 14 | Victims of the North Sea (Audio Clip) | (August, 1924) | 315 |
| U.S. and Italian planes lost attempting first flights to Iceland and Greenland | |||
| 15 | Triumph and Tragedy (Audio Clip) | (September, 1924 - September, 1925) | 345 |
| Half of flight succeeds, Mitchell broken after predicting Japan Pearl Harbor attack | |||
| 16 | Patriotism and Punishment (Audio Clip) | (September - December, 1925) | 375 |
| Shenandoah crashes, Mitchell accuses president and War Dept. of treason, court martialed | |||
| 17 | Fears, Fates, and Finality (Audio Clip) | (1926-1946, Present) | 393 |
| Mitchell resigns, dies, predictions all come true, president awards him Medal of Honor | |||
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