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Trade ReviewWalter J. Boyne, former director, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum An absolutely brilliant book by an aviation pioneer! Bob Buck's beautiful writing style conveys his intimate and loving knowledge of aviation, evoking the best of the past...while keeping us solidly grounded in the present. Buck's memoirs put him in the first rank of aviation writers with Ernie Gann and Charles Lindbergh. Any airman will love this book, and any writer will envy it.
Reeve Lindbergh
North Star over My Shoulder provides the connection between the very first pioneers, like my father, and the brave band of young aviators who followed him. [Bob Buck] writes so eloquently about his life and work....It's a wonderful story. A real delight to read.
Jonathan Yardley,
The Washington Post [Buck] has written a strong, vivid, and wholly engaging memoir of his flying life...a lively, informative book that loses not a bit of its wonder and excitement now that aviation has been transformed from science fiction into everyday reality.
Table of ContentsContents
- Night Flight
- Hooked
- Records
- Co-Education
- Apprentice Time
- Early Airplanes and How We Flew Them
- Way Out West
- Copilot Days and Nights
- Checkout
- Captain Buck
- The Battle of Presque Isle
- Intercontinental
- Across the North Atlantic
-
Two Kind Words
- Flights of Fancy with a Purpose
- Distractions and Adventure
- Chief
- Around the World
- A Brief Debriefing
- Chance of a Lifetime
- Back on the Line
- Paris and Beyond
- A Summons from Howard Hughes
- Farewell to Propellers and All That Drove Them
- 707 Days
- SST or Not SST
- Home, and Above
- Around the World -- Upside Down
- Grand Dame
- Fin
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