The Lost Pilots: the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of aviation's golden couple

摘要

The Sahara desert, February 1962: wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane's long-dead pilot. Who was he? And what had happened to him? I love hearing stories of the challenges faced by pilots of yesteryear, back when flying was flying and pilots had to be creative to avoid catastrophe. In this excellently researched book, Corey Mead retraces the events surrounding Bill Lancaster and Jessie Miller's attempt to set the long-distance record from England to Australia. This has all the ingredients of a real page-turner: crash landings, suspected murder and a steamy moment in a military bunker. With unexpected plot twists throughout, I frequently had to remind myself that this is indeed a true story.