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Rinker Buck Flight of Passage Chino reported: Chino reported: Sometimes it really IS a small world. In March 1999, I was having my car serviced at a Jiffy-Lube station in Milford, Massachusetts, near my home. When I checked my car in, I noticed the name "Kern Buck" on the list of waiting customers on the computer screen. That name sounded familiar, and after a moment, I remembered why. A few months before I had found a book called Flight of Passage in my supermarket bookstore. It had a Piper Cub on the cover, and since I had flown Cubs as a kid in Civil Air Patrol, I was intrigued. I looked it over and decided to make it the next "flying book" in my collection. Flight of Passage is the story of a flight across America by two brothers in July 1966. Kern Buck was 17 and had just gotten his pilot's license. Rinker Buck was 15, and had also learned to fly the family Piper Cub. Their father, Tom Buck, was a colorful character who had been a barnstormer in his younger days and had taught his boys to fly at a young age. The boys wanted to do something special, something that would really be their own project, and also impress their dad. They decided to fix up the family Cub, and then fly it from their home in New Jersey all the way to Los Angeles, California. This was quite a challenge given that the Cub could not fly very fast or high, had no radio, lights, or heat, and could hold virtually no luggage in its tiny two-place cockpit. But that's what they decided to do -- fix up the Cub, and fly it to California. |
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