Flight of Passage

A memoir of two teenage brothers’ cross-country flight in a Piper Cub in 1966: “A terrific book . . . Huckleberry Finn meets The Spirit of St. Louis .” — Chicago Sun-Times In the summer of 1966, Rinker and Kern Buck, two teenagers from New Jersey, bought a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it, and piloted it on a record-breaking flight across America, navigating all the way to California without a radio, because they couldn’t afford one. Their trip retraced a mythical route