num_pages: 270
description: They were best friends and now they were partners. They had planned carefully, overlooking nothing and were ready to challenge the real world. After all, they were 22, always careful and very wise, right? What could go wrong? As they waited at the end of the runway for a signal from the tower, they contemplated their long waited adventure. The morning of April 15, 1949 promised a cookin' hot day and they sweated, impatient to get started. There! Finally, a long, steady green. Eagerly the pilot pushed the throttle to the panel. The engine roared, as much as the little C-65 could, and the airplane began to move. His passenger carefully penciled the first, historical entry into their flight log. "You're both crazy nuts," Uncle John had said. The young pilot conceded that adventures could be dangerous. But deadly? "Nah, It's not going to be that kind of adventure, Uncle John." By sundown the next day they were deep into Old Mexico. They had made three emergency landings and all the LAMSA Airline terminals between Nogales and Mazatlan were trying to find them, to warn them. Where had they gone? Why had they not been seen at any of the airports? Because they couldn't find any airports, that's why! "Hole in the Sky!" is a true story, a gripping tale of two friends who became lost in the mysteries of a strange land and found it was too late to turn back. Suddenly they were running for their lives! Don't mistake this as "just an airplane story." Indeed, their journey was in a small, two-place Luscombe but "Hole" is an unbelievable account of two who decided they were ready to explore the real world. It happened - it really happened! And sadly, it's also a tale of a friendship that got lost in time.
title: Hole in the Sky! A Story Out of the Past Sneaked into the Present to Claim the Future!
titlecomplete: Hole in the Sky! A Story Out of the Past Sneaked into the Present to Claim the Future!
publisher: Tomes Publishing