Volume 42, Number 2 · February 2, 1995
Lonely Passion
By Al Alvarez
A Passion for Wings
by Robert Wohl
Yale University Press, 320 pp., $35.00
Saint-Exupéry: A Biography
by Stacy Schiff
Knopf, 525 pp., $30.00
Powered flight was the first great technological achievement of this technological century, and it developed at an astonishing pace. In 1976, just seventy-three years after the Wright Brothers' first stuttering flights at Kitty Hawk, Concorde went into commercial service, carrying whoever could afford the fare—tycoons, grannies, babesin-arms—across great distances at supersonic speeds. More important, the passengers thought nothing of it. In the space of a single lifetime, flight had changed from an impossibly dangerous adventure, strictly for heroes and a very few heroines, to a routine.
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