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A review by 5elementknitr
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple by Corey Mead
4.0
You know how some non-fiction books tend to lag here and there? Not so with this one!
I found it terribly interesting the whole way through! The part leading up to the "terrible incident", I was speed-reading to see what happened!
I loved how the author called out sexism any and every time it showed up in the events.
My only (very-minor) disappointments were that Bessie Coleman was never mentioned, and I would have liked more details about their initial record-breaking flight. I thought that was going to be a lot more of the book, but was done by page.... 30? 50? Early-ish on. I think there were more pages at the end of the book devoted to sources and indices than on that initial flight. Which just goes to show how thoroughly researched is this book! (never a bad thing, amirite?)
I found it terribly interesting the whole way through! The part leading up to the "terrible incident", I was speed-reading to see what happened!
I loved how the author called out sexism any and every time it showed up in the events.
My only (very-minor) disappointments were that Bessie Coleman was never mentioned, and I would have liked more details about their initial record-breaking flight. I thought that was going to be a lot more of the book, but was done by page.... 30? 50? Early-ish on. I think there were more pages at the end of the book devoted to sources and indices than on that initial flight. Which just goes to show how thoroughly researched is this book! (never a bad thing, amirite?)