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9781420852882: EASTBOUND: Our Flight - Our Mission
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ISBN 10: 1420852884 ISBN 13: 9781420852882
Editorial: AuthorHouse, 2006

Sinopsis

"All private flyers have their dreams. And ours was to circle the world under our own power and navigation. We'd thought about it, talked about it, knew we could do it and one day would. It was only a matter of under what circumstances and when. What we never anticipated, not in our wildest imaginations, was that such a flight would be born for us out of Glasnost, Perestroika and the breakup of the Soviet Union ...or that it was destined to become a life experience for us as Jews. But that's what happened..." So begins Eastbound, as Southern California flyers Evy and Marty Lutin and Renny and Bernie Shapiro learn the momentous news that the historically closed airspace of Russia has opened to flights from the West. This means that it is now possible to fly a direct transglobal route that will not only shave some 6000 nautical miles off the distance needed to accomplish their objective, but one that will put them in good company - only Wiley Post, Howard Hughes and a handful of others have ever flown around the world via Russia. As if these factors aren't enough motivation, for the two couples there is more, much more. A flight across Russia might give them a chance to use their wings to mount a mission of connection with people and places of post-Soviet era Jewish revival whose long-buried seeds of Jewish life are beginning to flourish once again. It is an easy decision: They will make the flight via Russia. What follows is the account of this remarkable flight and mission. Based upon her journals and those of her crewmates aboard Cessna N77ML, Shapiro carries us along and onboard their "Lutin/Shaprio Around The World Flight - 1993" from inception to planning and from first take-off to final landing. We are with them as they wing their way across 19,000 nautical miles of ocean, continents and seas, with them as they experience places of history, pre-history, history in the making and everything in between. And at last, we are with them when 9000 miles and seve

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Reseña del editor

"All private flyers have their dreams. Ours was to circle the world under our own power and navigation . We'd thought about it, talked about it, knew we could do it and one day would. It was only a matter of under what circumstances and when. What we never anticipated, not in our wildest imaginations, was that such a flight would be born for us out of Glasnost, Perestroika and the breakup of the Soviet Union.or that it was destined to become a life experience for us as Jews. But that's what happened. " *** So begins the true-life story of the world flight, travels and adventures of two American couples, who upon becoming amongst the few private transglobal flyers from the west permitted to cross the previously closed airspace of Ukraine and Siberia following the dissolution of the USSR, seize the opportunity to use their wings to connect with post Soviet-era Jewish revitalization and renewal. Written by Renny Shapiro, a member of the crew of Cessna N77ML, Eastbound carries us along and onboard with the two couples from their planning and initial take-off to final landing. We become part of the exhilaration, excitement (and even tedium) of world flying as we join them on their 19,000 nautical mile, 23 leg, 63 day flight across an ocean., continents and seas. We travel with them as they visit 13 countries and places of history, pre-history, and everything in between. And at last, we are with them when after nine thousand miles of flight and six weeks from home they arrive in the Former Soviet Union, where everywhere they touch down they are welcomed with joyous cries of "Shalom"! In the end, Eastbound gives us a moving, warm and insightful look at what it is like to mount and carry out the kind of flight called "one of the last adventures in our increasingly predictable world" .and one, which for the two couples leads them from standing watch for Jews in almost forgotten places to connecting with many of these very people: the Jewish people of the Former Soviet Union, whose struggle is not to just survive, but to thrive against all odds.

Biografía del autor

Renny Shapiro lives with her husband in Malibu and Mammoth Lakes, California.

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Editorial
AuthorHouse
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1420852884
ISBN 13 
9781420852882
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
408
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