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Zero 3 Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane
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Zero 3 Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane Paperback - 1994

by Mariana Gosnell

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With former Newsweek reporter Mariana Gosnell as the pilot, every takeoff is an adventure and every anecdote brings readers closer to falling in love with flying. Fromcount is "a literary work of straightforward affection . . ". (Newsweek).

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Mariana Gosnell takes the reader along on her extraordinary voyage across the U.S. in her single-engine Luscombe Silvaire, Zero Three Bravo. Enticed by the ribbon of sky that she could see from her Manhattan office window, she took a leave of absence from her job and made a three-month solo flight, navigating by use of landmarks and landing in America's little-known, back-country airports. She traveled south from her home airport of Spring Valley, New York, down to North Carolina and Georgia, west across Texas to Los Angeles and north to San Francisco, and then east over the Rockies, the plains, and the farms of the Midwest until she was back home.

What results is a lyrical description of land, sky, and water interwoven with experiences among small-town folks, maverick crop-dusters, banner towers, mechanics, and airport loiterers. With each landing there is a story to be told: the deaf-mute pilot who grounded himself until the eggs in the bird's nest lodged in his plane's engine had hatched, the woman running an airport by herself after losing both her husband and son to flying accidents, and the pilots and "hangar bums" who tried to hide their surprise when they saw a woman pilot flying cross-country solo.

This true story -- including photos taken on the trip -- will make the confirmed urban dweller yearn for open spaces and the adventurous life.

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It was a Monday and there weren't many pilots around, just a few of the regulars.

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  • Title Zero 3 Bravo: Solo Across America in a Small Plane
  • Author Mariana Gosnell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, New York
  • Publication date 1994-07-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780671892081 / 0671892088
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.9 x 1 in (23.01 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Category Travel - General
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Description and travel, Air travel - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 94004049
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.304

About the author

Mariana Eleanor Gosnell is an artist, journalist, photographer, pilot and book author originally from Columbus, Ohio.
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