Instructions: Find from Internet three pilots from this list or other Ukrainian/Russian pilots from the 1930s and post three different blogs showing the URLs at the end of your post. Do NOT include in your post Wikipedia or about.com or ask.com. Find sites that are devoted to that particular pilot and summarize what you read.
The Perils of World record holders in the Golden Age of Aviation
1) Charles Lindberg (1927)
2) Carl Ben Eielson (1929)
3) Amy Johnson (May 1930) British woman
4) Bernt Balchen and Roald Amundson (1930)
5) Harold Gatty and Wiley Post (June, 1931) Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, Kabaruski
6) Pangborn and Herndon (July 31, 1931, forced down in Russia)
7) Lindberg and wife Anne Morrow (August 1931 forced down east coast of Siberia, Petropavlovski)
8. Mrs. Earheart Putnam (May 21, 1932)
9) James Mattern and Griffin (July 8, 1932, forced down at Borisaw near Polish and Russian border)
10) Thor Solberg (Norwegian pilot in 1932)
11) James Mattern (June of 1933, SOS from Vladivostok, lost near Anadyr, Siberia found in July 20th by Russian pilot Levanefsky)
12) Wiley Post (July 17, 1933 in Irkutsk, Siberia)
13) The Flying Family (Hutchinsons)
14) Wiley Post and Will Rogers (Aug. 15, 1935, Point Barrow)




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