Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US Air Mail Service
BY JILL ESBAUM JACK KNIGHT'S BRAVE ILLUSTRATED BY STACY INNERST CALKINS CREEK AN IMPRINT OF ASTRA BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS New York FLIGHT HOW ONE GUTSY PILOT SAVED THE U.S. AIR MAIL SERVICE
North Platte Nebraska February 22 1921. 10:44 p.m. JACK KNIGHT adjusts his goggles eases the control stick forward and rumbles down the runway Hundreds of people crowd the airstrip waiting in the wintry chill for there Liftoff Cheers ring out and all eyes watch the plywood covered de Havilland until it disappears into the night
