The Great Air Race Quotes

“To keep their turns coordinated, and thus less prone to a stall, they took their cues from their buttocks—too much pressure on one side indicated that an aircraft was slipping toward the inside of a turn, on the other, that it was skidding toward the outside of a turn (hence the expression “flying by the seat of the pants”).”
― John Lancaster, The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation

“From 1908 to 1913, the French government invested $22 million in aviation, while the United States spent just $435,000. Germany led the pack at $28 million.”
― John Lancaster, The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation