Jack Knight's Brave Flight - How One Gutsy Pilot Saved the U.S. Air Mail Service

Biplanes have been flying the mail in short hops all over the country--during daylight hours, when pilots can see where they're going. But crashes are still so common that lawmakers decide to cut funding for the fledgling service. Outraged officials and pilots concoct a daring plan to save Air Mail--a nonstop, coast-to-coast race--to prove that keeping mail in the air is the fastest way to move it across America.But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm threaten the race, Jack Knight steps up. All he has to do is fly all night long. Through a blizzard. Over land he's never covered. With a nearly empty fuel tank.What could go wrong?