| Lost in Oscar Hotel: There Is Something in the Air Contributor(s): Murray, Gordon Joseph (Author), Harwood, Gary (Photographer), Crouch, Thomas (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0986062006 ISBN-13: 9780986062001 Publisher: Mirabilis Books OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Travel | Special Interest - Adventure |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 8.5" W x 8.5" (1.67 lbs) 214 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Words from a dead pilot recalled in a freezing rainstorm and memories of singing TV hillbillies ignite the spark for a college professor to do something no one has ever tried. He is joined by a Vietnam-era flight surgeon and the unlikely pair set out to fly a couple of aviation's holy relics to Wright Brothers Airport in Dayton. It's the 75th anniversary of the airplane that taught a half-million veterans to fly. Take off with them--in the wrong direction. Fly from sunrise to sunset for 10 days; low enough to smile at farmers; slow enough to count your blessings. Cover 44,825 square miles and land in every Ohio county, claiming a peculiar world record while nearly 50,000 people follow. You have uncovered a tribe of kindred souls and they invite you again to dream. In the end, a chance to reclaim your spirit's erstwhile pieces and be reminded living, much like all flying-is done first in the imagination. This is a true, strange record of hours, won alongside an accounting of odd discoveries, beautifully captured photographs and the spinning of flying tales. It is a story of love and a nearly forgotten secret: Airplanes were the original Internet-invented to bring people in this world together. |