Skyfaring A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker

One of the Best Books of the Year The New York Times San Francisco Chronicle The Economist Kirkus Reviews In the twentyfirst century airplane flight once a remarkable feat of human ingenuityhas been relegated to the realm of the mundane. In this mesmerizing reflection on flying Mark Vanhoenacker a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flying helps us to reimagine what weas pilots and as passengersare actually doing when we