good book

Holidays are approaching...

For those looking for an inexpensive aviation-related gift, or a book
to read while flying commercial, I recommend the following book:

"flight of passage" by Rinker Buck

I'm not affiliated with author, nor do I make any money off this.
It's simply a good book.

I would certainly second that recommendation. The Buck brothers started
their flight from a now "developed" (read "gone") airport (Basking Ridge)
near Somerset airport where I fly out of. One of our A&P's has a prominent
part in the book, and several other people I know are mentioned, including
the owner of Somerset. That's not what makes it a good book, but it made it
even more enjoyable for me.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"Rich" wrote in message
om...
Holidays are approaching...

For those looking for an inexpensive aviation-related gift, or a book
to read while flying commercial, I recommend the following book:

"flight of passage" by Rinker Buck

I'm not affiliated with author, nor do I make any money off this.
It's simply a good book.

Another good book related to cross-country flying is "The Cannibal
Queen" by Stephen Coonts. Stearman barnstorming across USA with his son.

Scott


Rich wrote:
Holidays are approaching...

For those looking for an inexpensive aviation-related gift, or a book
to read while flying commercial, I recommend the following book:

"flight of passage" by Rinker Buck

I'm not affiliated with author, nor do I make any money off this.
It's simply a good book.

"Scott" wrote in message
...
Another good book related to cross-country flying is "The Cannibal
Queen" by Stephen Coonts. Stearman barnstorming across USA with his son.

Scott


Yeah, I read Coonts' book and it was right good. That was 10 or so years
ago and my memory of it now is faded except for his error describing the
Ford Flivver in the EAA museum at Oshkosh as authentic rather than a
reproduction. IIRC, the Midland, MI chapter assembled the Flivver from some
very hard-to-find drawings --- no original Flivver having survived. I also
got a kick out of Coonts complaining about every time he made a bad landing
in the Queen and how the aging varicose-legged sandal-wearing hippies in
Boulder irritated him.

I got to the wild pre-winter-rebuild landing of the Buck boys' wild daddy in
the PA-11 whereupon my library renewal ran out and I had to turn the book
in. I'll go back and check it out again and no I won't tell you where it
is because you'll try to sneak in ahead of me. Last I remember the boys
were going to hook the Cub to a truck and tow it tail-first to the barn for
re-covering and their big trip across the continent.

Are there any good books out there on designing and constructing composite
aircraft wings. It needs to cover calculating wing loads and then
designing the wing to handle those loads.

BTW: I'm not actually flying this wing so don't worry about this green-horn
building someing in my garage and then killing myself. This is for a solid
wing sail for an ice boat. For more information you can visit this site:

http://groups.msn.com/LandsailerandI...ndconstruction

Thanks
Dave

"Rich" wrote in message
om...
Holidays are approaching...

For those looking for an inexpensive aviation-related gift, or a book
to read while flying commercial, I recommend the following book:

"flight of passage" by Rinker Buck

I'm not affiliated with author, nor do I make any money off this.
It's simply a good book.