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Re: Book - Wind, Sand and Stars
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2015 Aug 20, 10:41 -0600
From: Bruce J. Pennino
Date: 2015 Aug 20, 10:41 -0600
First rate book if interested in early days of flight. Courageous men & women those early pilots..
Bruce
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From: "Stephen N.G. Davies"To:
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St Exupéry? If so, it is a good read but very much of its epoch without much technical detail - more the feeling of flying in the early days. I has a brilliant account of being hit by a pampero that blew nearly as hard to seaward as his aeroplane could fly in the opposite direction.
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On 19 Aug, 2015, at 12:07 pm, Greg Rudzinski <NoReply_Rudzinski@fer3.com> wrote:
