Jack Knight's Brave Flight: How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the US 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
MARY PICKFORD Is Jack transporting a famous passenger Is he ferrying medicine to save a sick child Is his plane filled with precious jewels or priceless artifacts FRAGILE U.S MAIL U.S. U.S. U.S.
Nope So what's strapped into the open cockpit ahead of him Six sacks of mail Why then is the crowd so excited Because this is no ordinary mail flight This is an all day all night coast to coast race to save America's struggling Air Mail Service Or not
