Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck adolescence And this moment

And this moment

driven only by blind will

Told for more than a thousand years

for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'

2 The Glory of God and the Glory of Man

Flight of Passage: A True Story by Rinker Buck adolescence And this momentIn the Summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck two teenaged schoolboys from New Jersey bought a dilapidated Piper Cub airplane for $300, rebuilt it, and piloted it on a record breaking flight across America navigating all the way to California without a radio, because they couldn't afford one. Their trip retraced a mythical route flown by their father, Tom Buck, a brash, colorful ex barnstormer who had lost a leg in a tragic air crash before his sons