He wrote a best-selling book. He was a poet, an artist and an airplane pilot.
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The publishers of the Guinness Book of Records eliminated the youngest pilot category from its book several years ago because they did not want to encourage unsafe flights.
Penguin, for instance, is embarking on its library lending pilot with e-book distributor (and German industrial giant) 3M, some say because it may not want to do business with OverDrive.
He is admirably qualified to describe it: he is not just a top journalist but also an amateur pilot, and his book is built around a heart-stopping description of a flight across America with his wife and son.