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Explorer in the Air Service

Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on LibriVox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of Military Aeronautics at eight universities to provide ground school training for aviation cadets, and then in Issoudun, France, Bingham commanded the primary Air Service flying school. He became a supporter of the Air Service in their post-war quest for independence from the Army and supported that effort, in part, with the publication of this book of his wartime experiences published in 1920 by Yale University Press. (Summary by Wikipedia and ToddHW)

Year of Publication: 1920Genres: War & Military , Transportation , Memoirs

Running Time: 7 hours 41 minutes 26 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	00 - PREFACE asterix	6:38
2	01 - FIRST FLIGHTS asterix	18:49
3	02 - TORONTO AND THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS asterix	15:56
4	03 - WAR FEVER IN WASHINGTON Robin Cotter	15:59
5	04 - ORGANIZING THE SCHOOLS OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS asterix	28:21
6	05 - SELECTING THE FITTEST asterix	18:46
7	06 - THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN WASHINGTON asterix	30:09
8	07 - OVERSEAS asterix	12:53
9	08 - THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A PILOT asterix	24:34
10	09 - THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN TOURS Sacha Chander	25:24
11	10 - A FEW HOURS AT THE FRONT asterix	15:23
12	11 - THE THIRD AVIATION INSTRUCTION CENTRE asterix	19:42
13	12 - TRAINING AVIATORS asterix	32:34
14	13 - ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 1 asterix	26:52
15	14 - ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 2 asterix	26:10
16	15 - OBSERVATION AND NIGHT PURSUIT asterix	18:12
17	16 - THE "PLANE NEWS" asterix	23:29
18	17 - THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT asterix	16:11
19	18 - IMPORTANT ACCESSORIES asterix	32:41
20	19 - SHOULD THE GENERAL STAFF CONTROL THE AIR SERVICE? asterix	27:12
21	20 - THE FUTURE OF AVIATION asterix	25:31