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This book, written by Phil Patton, and told in the alternating voices of Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager is the incredible saga of the first plane to fly nonstop around the world without refueling. From the model airplane and motorcycle racing hobbies of the adolescent Rutan brothers, Dick and Burt, and the travel-loving, horse-loving, track-running, first-woman-in-space dreaming Jeana Yeager, who as a girl growing up was just as comfortable climbing trees and catching tadpoles as she was dressing up, to the whirlwind around-the-world and cross-country press conferences and appearances following their triumphant, nine-day, three minute and forty-four second history-making flight, Dick and Jeana, Voyager's pilots, tell their own stories, and the story of the Voyager project, with warmth, compassion, and candor. They recount in vivid detail every step of the six-year project; from Burt's determination to leave his mark in the field of aviation, and his vision of the aircraft that would make that happen, to the discouraging, and seemingly endless struggle for funding to keep the project alive without government support, and all the successes and setbacks in between: The building and testing of Voyager; and the ultimate completion of their flight, culminating in one of the greatest achievements in aviation history, putting Dick and Burt Rutan, Jeana Yeager and the Voyager in the exclusive company of the Wright brothers, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit Of St. Louis, and Chuck Yeager's Glamorous Glennis. It's a great read, every bit as intense and compelling as any best-selling, nail-biting thriller, and I won't hesitate a second to highly recommend it to all aviation buffs, engineering buffs, history buffs, or anybody else who wants to enjoy a really, really, really good book. If you've got a soft spot for the classic American against-all-odds achievement story, then you MUST read this book.Read full review
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