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United States Pilots Association |
The next time you’re looking for a good book to read, let me recommend one I just finished: “The Spirit of St. Louis,” by Charles Lindbergh.
Written over 14 years by the famous aviator himself, it takes you step by step through the idea, planning, and “carry it out” stages of the first non-stop flight from New York to Paris (in 1927), while it simultaneously gives you insight into the times and lives of the era’s barnstorming and mail run pilots. The unbelievable, but true, missions they carried out in all types of weather with little or no equipment and engines that failed on a regular basis, is enough for one book by itself. But combined with the dangerous idea to fly non-stop across the Atlantic to win a $25,000 prize, makes for a you-can’t-put-it-down read.
I thank USPA member Joe Phelan for giving the book to USPA member JC Zalog, who read it, and then shared it with me. If you don’t have a pilot friend who already has one, I recommend you consider buying it.
Jan Hoynacki, Executive Director
United States Pilots Association