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Cargando... Riding the Reef: A Pan American Adventure with Lovepor Bret Voortmeyer, Carol Nickisher
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. diary of Bert Voortmeyer who went to the Pacific to help Juan Trippe build a landing strip for his china clippers, the first passenger planes to fly that ocean. It's an adventure told in the simple terms of the pre war depression generation. The book covers the difficulties of building an airstrip on a coral island. It informs the reader of the state of American technology in those days.A great complementary book to William Grooch's Skyway to Asia. A first-hand story of the "true grit" spirit describing the development of Pan Am's Pacific island staging posts. Wake Island today has a long concrete runway, for jet aircraft operations, Peale Island, where Bert Voortmeyer helped to build the Pan American Airways flying boat base. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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It is wonderful book and will be read again.
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