I don't think anyone has mentioned "Those Magnificent Men in their
Flying Machines." Am I alone in remembering it as awful?

Anyone ever watched "Wings"? I never saw the movie myself, but my
mother had a novelization of the movie (Yes, they did that even back
in the silent days.) that I read several times when I was a kid. (The
plot of "Flyboys" included a few elements of "Wings.")

Mom had a copy of Anne Lindbergh's "North to the Orient," too. I've
always thought of her as timid, but, hmmm.

Don

You are most definitely not alone.

Interestingly, I learned much later that some of those machines actually
flew...

Peter