ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (08/26/85)
The August 26, 1985 issue of the New Yorker magazine has a good
article about general aviation ("A Reporter Aloft [airports]").rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL) (08/27/85)
In article <4216@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes: >The August 26, 1985 issue of the New Yorker magazine has a good >article about general aviation ("A Reporter Aloft [airports]"). I second the recommendation, though the description of a sailplane landing as a "...controlled crash" is way off the mark. There is nothing in power flying to compare with the swish of the grass on the sailplane skid as you land. He makes up for this lapse with words like "excited" and "intoxication" to describe his reaction to soaring, so perhaps I shouldn't complain. BTW the sub-title is "SMALL airports". Enjoy. --|-- *~~~~~~~~\bob/~~~~~~~~* ^ ^ Bob Langridge ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!rl (UUCP) Computer Graphics Laboratory 926 Medical Sciences rl@berkeley (ARPA) University of California San Francisco CA 94143 Phone: +1 415 666 2630