Chasing Horizons-The Air Race that Changed the World is a historical fiction depicting the aeronautical challenge of 1924 in which four Douglas World Cruisers and eight American crewmen set out from Seattle, Washington, to attempt the first around-the-world airplane flight. One hundred seventy-five days later two of the aircraft and crews became the first to circumnavigate earth. Lowell Smith, Jim Bolander's great-uncle, won the race in CHICAGO, the airplane displayed in the Smithsonian.