Nowhere can a person find greater solitude than alone in flight

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

The site roared twenty-four hours a day for nine full months and beyond. From autumn through winter and into spring the crews labored in twelve-hour shifts, got some sleep, and came back for more. The enormous scale of their workplace is difficult to convey.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.