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Beech 18 AT-7 Navigator Copyright Museum of Flight - all rights reserved latest blog entries updated on June 22, 2009 |
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FINAL FLIGHT a blog by Peter Stekel FINAL FLIGHT is the story of four aviators lost in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks on November 18, 1942 |
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FINAL FLIGHT, coming from Wilderness Press in 2010 |
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Read more about FINAL FLIGHT here. |
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| I've been hiking and
mountaineering in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks ever since I first
came to the Sierra in 1965 as a 12 year-old boy scout. More than any other
place I've lived, I've always considered the Parks to be my home.
Everything I studied in college at UC Davis while working on my BA in
botany and at Humboldt State University while working on a masters in
ecology was to better understand the Sierra. Discovering the cause of the
Beech 18 AT-7 airplane crash in 1942 is part of that process. After literally stumbling across the body of Glenn Munn in 2007 I became deeply involved in trying to understand what caused the airplane crash of the Beech 18 AT-7 that killed him and three others in November, 1942. The four men lost on that date were not movers and shakers or shapers of history - they were regular folks, just like the rest of us. We are the people who fight the wars, make the sacrifices, to return home and resume lives broken or disjointed by conflict. I feel it is fitting that their story be told. |
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My new
book, Best Hikes Near Seattle, is a hiking guide to the Cascade
Mountains within 60 miles or 60 minutes of downtown Seattle.
It is now available and can be purchased on-line in Oregon at Powell's Books in Portland HERE, at Better World of Books HERE, or from Amazon HERE. Or, ask at your local bookstore. |
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write to: peter[at]FinalFlightTheBook.com |
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