- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; Open Market ed edition (4 Mar 1993)
- ISBN-10: 0099234114
- ISBN-13: 978-0099234111
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,623,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An account of three months of flight in a vintage 1942 Stearman bi-plane. Travelling across 48 continental United States, Coonts flies like the legendary barnstormers, painting a picture of the astonishing panorama of landscapes beneath him, from the Painted Desert to the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore. He swoops under storms and over mountains, across swamps, deserts, forests and the monumental expanse of the Great Plains; he relates with relish the sights, sounds and stories of small-town America; he shares the individual tales of the people he meets along the way. His experiences fill him with nostalgia for the past and above all an overriding hope for the future. The author also wrote "Under Siege", "The Minotaur", "Final Flight" and "Flight of the Intruder".
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ALL REALLY GREAT FLYING ADVENTURES BEGIN AT DAWN-THE dawn patrol, takeoff from Roosevelt Field for the flight across the Atlantic to Paris, launch at first light for a strike on Rabaul, and so on. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Boring and repetitive. "We took-off, flew for a while and then we landed". Where is the romance of flying a "Proper" aeroplane? Gave up half way though and doubt whether I'll force myself to finish it.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Not "the best general aviation book in print"
13 Dec 2000
Format:Paperback
This book is entertaining and I enjoyed reading it, but it is not in the same league as e.g. Richard Bach's A Gift of Wings.
The audiotape version, which I recently obtained from the local lending library, really highlights the author's more banal observations and the book's lack of structure. I had to turn it off halfway through the first cassette - a first for me!
It's not a bad book, and I'm pleased to have it in my personal library. I don't agree with OmarUSAF's suggestion that it is boring; but it cannot reasonably be considered a classic. Mariana Gosnell's Zero 3 Bravo and (especially) Rinker Buck's Flight of Passage are better accounts of flying across America.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Great Read!
9 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
A few years ago I bought this book in Sidney as I prepared for the long flight back to the US. The book was so entertaining that it made that journey not only bearable but a pleasure. It is the story of a trip that we would all like to make in a plane we would all like to own. Get it, read it, enjoy it and pass it along to another pilot.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Light Introductory Cute Read
31 Dec 2001
Format:Paperback
I read this book several years ago as the book was on special. It was an enjoyable light read for me as I was curious to find out
a bit about rural america and the flying experience around it. My specific interest was in terms of the actual flying and the
meeting of wonderful people around small american airports and how he paid for his flying. The book was a brief introduction
to the joy and tribulations of buying and flying an open cockpit airplane between small airports across most of america. I
wished he would of discussed a lot more the scenery and the characters he met along the way. I found that certain airports he
just mentions them without delving deeper even though I new that he had to spend a whole day flying just to get to these distant
airports. It will mainly satisfy addicts who want an introductory light read about flying across america. For better or worse, he
wets our appetite and leaves us with a growling stomach.
a bit about rural america and the flying experience around it. My specific interest was in terms of the actual flying and the
meeting of wonderful people around small american airports and how he paid for his flying. The book was a brief introduction
to the joy and tribulations of buying and flying an open cockpit airplane between small airports across most of america. I
wished he would of discussed a lot more the scenery and the characters he met along the way. I found that certain airports he
just mentions them without delving deeper even though I new that he had to spend a whole day flying just to get to these distant
airports. It will mainly satisfy addicts who want an introductory light read about flying across america. For better or worse, he
wets our appetite and leaves us with a growling stomach.
Pilot (East coast North America, Utah, and Arizona)
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