As much as pilots as Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart focused on public attention to become famous, and remained famous, there are some who were out of the public eye, with little ever written about them, their records and flights disappearing into oblivion.

The disappearance of Post and Earhart probably helped to create their fame. This is probably more so for Earhart, as the whereabouts of her remains and her aircraft, have remained a mystery to this day. Of all the pilots who flew around the world, at a time when this was still difficult and dangerous, Peter Mack, is probably the least well known. As Peter Mack did not set, or break, any official records, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale is unable to help with any details of his flight. The only known information has so far come exclusively from Carrol Glines' book: Round the World Flights.

In 1951, with the Corean War in progress, Peter Mack was re elected as the Democrat Senator for Illinois. He was very conscious of the anti American feelings in the World, and thought that with the right propaganda, a flight around the world might act to counter negative feelings aimed toward the United States.

Mack purchased William Odom's Beechcraft Bonanza Waikiki Beach. Odom had set a world record between Honolulu and New Jersey which has since been broken, and does not therefore appear in today's records.

Peter Mack renamed the aircraft Freindship Flame

Very little is known of the flight which commenced from Springfield in Missouri on October 7, 1951. Flying Eastward, Mack stopped in Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic by the southern route via the Azores, then on to Portugal and Spain.

The flight enabled Mack to visit Europe, passing through Holland and Germany. In Scandinavia, he went via Norway, Finland and Sweden and on to the Middle East, India, and the Philipines. Continuing north, Mack went to Japan via Taiwan. From there he crossed the Pacific, stopping at Wake and Midway, finally completing the flight at the end of the long leg between Hawaii and San Francisco. Although he did not set any records, Peter Mack visited 30 countries during the three and a half months he was away, covering 34,000 miles in 223 flying hours.

In this world of lonely pilots flying around the world, focussing on individualism, on the desire of outdoing others, of winning over adversity and of setting or beating records with a sporting spirit, in general devoid of any political ambition, Peter Mack is an exception. He is the only one whose goal was not just individualistic but collective, inspired by a nationalistic ideal and with a political agenda of propaganda.

The political orientation of his flight coming in front of any other interest could be the reason why he felled into oblivion in the aviation world.