North star over my shoulder
Subtitle: a flying life
By: Bob Buck.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Buck, Robert N., 1914-; Air pilots -- United States -- Biography; Airplanes -- Piloting
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Night Flight; title: 2. Hooked; title: 3. Records; title: 4. Co-Education; title: 5. Apprentice Time; title: 6. Early Airplanes and How We Flew Them; title: 7. Way Out West; title: 8. Copilot Days and Nights; title: 9. Checkout; title: 10. Captain Buck; title: 11. The Battle of Presque Isle; title: 12. Intercontinental; title: I3. Across the North Atlantic; title: I4. Two Kind Words; title: IS. Flights of Fancy with a Purpose; title: I6. Distractions and Adventure; title: 17. Chief; title: I8. Around the World; title: 19. A Brief Debriefing; title: 20. Chance of a Lifetime; title: 21. Back on the Line; title: 22. Paris and Beyond; title: 23. A Summons from Howard Hughes; title: 24. Farewell to Propellers and All That Drove Them; title: 25. 707 Days; title: 26. SSTorNot SST; title: 27. Home, and Above; title: 28. Around the World-Upside Down; title: 29. Grand Dame; title: 30. Fin; title: Index.