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Beech 18 AT-7 Navigator Copyright Museum of Flight - all rights reserved April, 2008 |
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FINAL FLIGHT a blog by Peter Stekel FINAL FLIGHT is the story of four aviators lost in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks on November 18, 1942 |
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FINAL FLIGHT: coming in late 2009 from Wilderness Press |
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Read more about FINAL FLIGHT here. |
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April 30 | ||||||
There is a nice write-up about Pat Macha and the work he does to identify and document military [and other] aircraft wrecks. The article is in today's Los Angeles Times. Pat is the aviation archeologist I met with last month during my research trip to California. HERE is the link to the Times page. There is a video there too. I'm not sure how long the newspaper link will be posted so HERE is another link - sans video. HERE is a link to Pat's website if you want to read more about his work. Thanks to Hill Penfold for letting me know about this story. | ||||||
April 28 | ||||||
I'm back from the Grand Canyon - and what a grand canyon it is. Didn't do much work on FINAL FLIGHT [can you blame me?] but I did think long and hard about the role of wilderness in our lives. All this will come to fruition in the wilderness chapter. | ||||||
When I got home and fired up my computer to check my email, the inbox had this poem about Glenn Munn written by Louis Marin. He also composed a poem for Leo Mustonen back in 2005, "Leo Mustonen Earns His Angel Wings," which Martin read at Leo's funeral. | ||||||
Ernest G. Munn Let
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Marin is a TSgt in the USAF. | ||||||
Mendel Glacier, Kings Canyon National Park |
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copyright 2010 Peter Stekel, all rights reserved |
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FINAL FLIGHT, coming from Wilderness Press in 2010 |
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