North Star Over My Shoulder: A Flying Life by Bob Buck

North Star Over My Shoulder:  A Flying Life by Bob Buckis a 446-page hardcover published by Simon & Schuster.  Copyright 2002.  The condition is very good. Book Summary It is rare to find one person whose life embodies the history of an industry the way Bob Buck's life encompasses the history of commercial aviation in America.  Buck first flew in the 1920s, inspired by the exploits of Charles Lindbergh.  In 1930, at age sixteen, he flew solo from coast to coast, breaking the junior transcontinental speed record.  He joined Transcontinental and Western Air (T & WA) as a copilot in 1937; when he retired thirty-seven years later, he had made more than 2,000 Atlantic crossings--and his role had progressed from such tasks as retracting a DC-2's landing gear with a cockpit-based hand pump to command of a wide-body 747. In North Star Over my Shoulder, Bob Buck tells of a life spent up and over the clouds, and of the wonderful places and marvelous people who have been part of that life