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The Magic of Flight

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 3, 2015

This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on July 7, 2015.

Mark Vanhoenacker is pilot who left academia to pursue his childhood dream of flight. In his new book, Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, he brings together the history, politics, and science of flight to illuminate exactly how modern flight works today.

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