"This book captures the memorable elements of the record-making world encircling aerial adventure with the author and his partner, Phil Greth, in his 1955, Bonanza from planning through lift-off May 27, 1988, ending twenty days later in Waukegan, IL.
Details of preparation and afterglow are included to provide the reader with a “cradle to grave” perspective and introduces the author’s father to provide insight to motivations.
The planning is intended to emphasize something told to me early on . . . “If the planning is done adequately, the trip will be boring, except for injections of sheer terror when something begins to go wrong.”
The book concludes with a look at the twenty years of record holding as it is celebrated and closes with the bittersweet setting of new records.
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