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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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
"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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