December 9, 2011
North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life
adminby Robert Buck If anyone is qualified to write a history of piloting, it is Robert Buck. Lindbergh inspired him to start flying, and he still glides and flies near his Vermont home. He’s been writing about flying since before World War II and is the author of the definitive pilot’s guide to flying through weather. The story of flight in the 20th Century is largely one of the progressive obviation of skills. Technology advanced so quickly that many skills and technologies that were essential in the 1930s are obsolete. […]
