I now have a solid answer for where I would go in a time machine: to deliver mails Aéropostale from Spain to North Africa in the 1930shttps://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/843664560712122368 …
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same except Patagonia. St Exuperys description of taking off and landing in place (high winds) is... breathtaking.
I have heard of this! I'm not in that section yet but I have spoken to pilots who've landed gliders in 50kt surface winds
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"I had to keep flying the plane to keep it on the ground and wings level until helpers could run out and get me"
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"the plane touched the ground and stopped without the main wheel turning once"
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yes yas yassss. Exupery was the only person I knew to turn flying into art. But then Ernest K. Gann. Dude has a vocab.
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flying has always been art. Exupéry was early to see it, and captured it.
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