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Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://audiobookspace.com/free Title: Cloud Racers Author: Adam L. Penenberg Narrator: Adam L. Penenberg Format: Unabridged Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins Language: English Release date: 06-23-14 Publisher: The Atavist Genres: History, American Publisher's Summary: Who would be the first aviator to singlehandedly fly all the way around the globe? That was all anyone wanted to know in the summer of 1933, when Wiley Post and Jimmie Mattern set out from New York in a pair of wood-and-canvas propeller planes. Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy with a desperate past, was as comfortable in the cockpit as he was socially awkward back on the ground. Mattern was a Hollywood stunt pilot and social sidekick of Howard Hughes who had fallen on hard times, and an accident-prone daredevil who'd walked away from more plane crashes than he could count. They were friends as well as rivals, members of a small fraternity of aviators - their circle included Charles Lindbergh