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01-01-2012 | 11:27 PM
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Day puke
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I am amazed that after four pages in this thread no one has included the aviation works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Having an engine failure in a stick and fabric airplane on a mail run, landing off field, and finding the beauty of it all.... That is a true Flyer.
Having an engine failure in a stick and fabric airplane on a mail run, landing off field, and finding the beauty of it all.... That is a true Flyer.
01-03-2012 | 07:43 AM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
Some of the best writers challenge many of the things in which we have been indoctrinated since birth and never bothered to question, or been allowed to question.
01-03-2012 | 02:56 PM
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I'm a man of my word.
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I just read The Little Prince. It was amazing. Put my "grown-up" self in check.
01-03-2012 | 04:51 PM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
01-03-2012 | 09:37 PM
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The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska <--- Good book about Alaska flying. The Nun story was particularly a sad reminder of the subsidized flying and how natives abuse the system.
Lone Survivor I was totally disappointed by. Plenty of other better SF books out there.
Lone Survivor I was totally disappointed by. Plenty of other better SF books out there.
01-04-2012 | 05:10 AM
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From: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
U.S. astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell read "Roughing It" aloud to pass the time aboard NASA's Gemini VII, a 14-day-long Earth orbital mission in December 1965. Borman recalls reading the book during an on-camera interview in the 1999 PBS-TV (USA) television program "Nova: To the Moon". wiki
Roughing It by Mark Twain - Project Gutenberg
Roughing It by Mark Twain - Project Gutenberg
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