Lyrical Aviators: Traveling America's Airways in a Small Plane Book

“If we crash, I hope that we’re rescued before the smoked oysters run out.” When was the last time you sat back in a comfortable chair and lost yourself completely in a good book, one that made you forget about your life and showed you places and people you only dreamed about? Find a comfortable chair. Lyrical Aviators is your ticket to high-flying adventures across North America, as the spunky southern girl learns to fly, and then embarks on a journey of discovery with her husband in their Cessna 172-RG. You will feel as if you are in the cockpit, your heart racing, as the Cessna is caught in a thunderstorm over West Palm Beach. You will hold your breath in terror as the pilots navigate the narrow, winding passes of Alaska’s snow-capped mountains. You will share in the grandeur as the couple soars over the Grand Canyon in the fading sunlight. And you will become silent with awe as you see Mt. St. Helen loom in the crisp Washington sky. Lyrical Aviators is an unique journey to faraway places and it is a celebration of those aviators who have contributed the most to the history of flying. The author interweaves tales of pioneer aviators as well as celebrity aviators through their journey. There are exciting stories about Chuck Yeager, the daredevil pilot who broke the sound barrier. In Keywest Florida, we learn more about the singing flyer, Jimmy Buffett, who island hops around the Caribbean seas in his seaplane. In California the Voyager pilots soared over the hot sands of the Mojave Desert in their testing of the plane that would break a new world record. Along the Pacific coast, we learn more about John Denver’s last flight, Richard Bach’s biplane and Harrison Ford doing his own piloting for a movie. In the book Lyrical Aviators, the romance of taking to the skies has been brought back to life as vividly as those barnstorming days of bold flyers in open cockpits doing a barrel roll over a wheat field.