By Robert Hing

ISBN-10: 1475295294

ISBN-13: 9781475295290

The conquest of the air took 100 years. thank you, Wilbur and Orville! thank you Bleriot and all of the others! Then got here the postwar growth, 1946 to 1975 and past; and each Tom, Dick and Harry used to be flying his personal aircraft. all of us have been. Aeronca, Beech, Cessna, Ercoupe, Piper, Stinson, Taylorcraft...those have been the airplanes humans flew. perhaps a pair million humans at one time or different within the united states, half whom truly obtained a few a few kind of pilot's license if basically scholar prestige; as many or extra who took a couple of flips in an plane. on the top, there have been or 300 thousand own airplanes (something like that), greater than 20,000 airports. A serious mass in case you like. gasoline used to be affordable; enthusiasm used to be sky-high.

Hing's exuberant memoir of this time tells of his personal tiny piece of the motion: beginning out in England flying the Tiger Moth and Auster, relocating to the USA and skylarking in homebuilts, warbirds, gliders, vintage airplanes, and floatplanes. "Light-hearted writing approximately heavier-than-air adventures."

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