Takeoff: The Pilot's Lore

by Daniele Del Giudice

Takeoff-a ton of inert matter transformed by the pilot into a thing of spirit and beauty. Takeoff-lifting one's shadow off the earth, entering a new element where movement is the very condition fro... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 015100269X
• ISBN13: 9780151002696
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Magic takes wing

If you like Richard Bach and Antoine de Saint Exupéry, you will likely love this little book. Masterful meditations on flight. A book for pilots and lovers of flying, about looking out the window, and into the soul. Very well received, but somehow overlooked by many pilots.

for flying lovers

Just one-minute review: if you love to fly read it because it explains,for me, many and many years of thoughts about my grandpa' WWII ,that flew whit the sm79 descripted in "Pauci sed semper immites". You would capture the best individual italian style.

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Fly and Dive the two faces of Del Giudice

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