High-flying history is brought to life in this suspenseful story of an
unknown and daring pilot named Jack Knight, who in 1921 flew his biplane
straight into a blizzard over America's heartland and saved the US Air
Mail Service in the process.
When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska,
in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a
famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope--Jack
has six sacks of mail.
For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail
only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are
too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail
Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the
mail is best, so they concoct a plan--a coast-to-coast race.
But when a crash, exhaustion, and a snowstorm ground three of the
planes, Jack Knight becomes the race's only hope. All he has to do is
fly all night long, leaning out of the plane to see, and navigate a
blizzard over land he's never covered with an empty fuel tank. Will Jack
pull it off and save the Air Mail Service?