You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

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.

Nowhere can a person find greater solitude than alone in flight

For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day.