Archive for Items Categorized 'Aviation', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.

Flight of Passage

by Rinker Buck

Imagine trying to write a memoir about the defining event of your life thirty years after it happened. This was the challenge facing Buck here. In 1966, Rinker, then 15 years old, and his older brother Kern, who was 17, flew a 85-hp Piper Cub to become the youngest aviators ever to fly from coast to coast.

SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends

by Richard H. Graham

The Blackbird may be old but stories about this “hottest plane in the cold war” don’t get old. Here people who were involved in many different areas of its building and operation relate stand-out situations.

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