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The Transom Book Club: The Right Stuff, Part I
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The Transom Book Club: The Right Stuff, Part I

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Saint-Ex

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Jul 26, 2022
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Scroll down for the link to our Book Club at 8:30 PM!

Tom Wolfe, writing in The Right Stuff:

"Anyone who travels very much on airlines in the United States soon gets to know the voice of the airline pilot...coming over the intercom... with a particular drawl, a particular folksiness, a particular down-home calmness that is so exaggerated it begins to paro…

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