Flyleaves Classic Aviation Books, with Johnny de Uphaugh

摘要

To those accustomed to sitting in a pressurised aeroplane cabin above the weather and guided by satellite navigation at 45,000ft, this book will be a revelation. It is an almost mystical description of the element through which we fly - of the winds, currents, icing conditions and storms it generates - by an old-fashioned bubble-and-sextant navigator who had to be intimately aware of, and in touch with, the vagaries of wind and weather through which he and his crew travelled on early transatlantic services in the late 1940s.