An Explorer in the Air Service: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

An Explorer in the Air Service, credited to Hiram Bingham, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of An Explorer in the Air Service, by Hiram Bingham. Read by volunteer readers. 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: An Explorer in the Air Service
• Author credits: Hiram Bingham
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 7:41:26

Catalogue topics

• history
• early days of flight
• airplanes
• World War 1
• WWI
• war

Track guide

1. 00 - PREFACE — 6:39
2. 01 - FIRST FLIGHTS — 18:49
3. 02 - TORONTO AND THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS — 15:57
4. 03 - WAR FEVER IN WASHINGTON — 16:00
5. 04 - ORGANIZING THE SCHOOLS OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS — 28:21
6. 05 - SELECTING THE FITTEST — 18:46
7. 06 - THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN WASHINGTON — 30:09
8. 07 - OVERSEAS — 12:53
9. 08 - THE DISADVANTAGES OF BEING A PILOT — 24:35
10. 09 - THE PERSONNEL OFFICE IN TOURS — 25:25
11. 10 - A FEW HOURS AT THE FRONT — 15:23
12. 11 - THE THIRD AVIATION INSTRUCTION CENTRE — 19:42
13. 12 - TRAINING AVIATORS — 32:35
14. 13 - ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 1 — 26:52
15. 14 - ADVANCED TRAINING FOR PURSUIT PILOTS, Part 2 — 26:11
16. 15 - OBSERVATION AND NIGHT PURSUIT — 18:13
17. 16 - THE PLANE — 23:29
18. 17 - THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT — 16:12
19. 18 - IMPORTANT ACCESSORIES — 32:41
20. 19 - SHOULD THE GENERAL STAFF CONTROL THE AIR SERVICE? — 27:13
21. 20 - THE FUTURE OF AVIATION — 25:32

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