My Ten Favorite Aviation Books
There is something fundamentally poetic about mankind's yearning to take to the skies, and since the days of the ancient Greeks and the myth
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Kevin Mohr
Oct 11, 20203 min read
HOMAGE TO THE PIONEERS OF SEA AND SKY
It is no accident that many pilots, particularly floatplane pilots, are drawn to sailing, for they belong to the same tradition.
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Kevin Mohr
Sep 3, 20206 min read
Reflections From Malta
I wander the high walls of ancient fortifications and look out to sea as the Knights of Malta and the ancient Romans did centuries ago.
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Kevin Mohr
Sep 2, 20202 min read
Following the Phoenicians
The quavering song echoes...in the morning sun coming through the glass. For us, it signifies a surreal send-off, a farewell to Africa.
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 30, 20204 min read
Among the Flying Dead
Its paint is the dull grey of rotting corpses. The resurrected monstrosity shambles skyward, bloated in the sun.
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 23, 20205 min read
The Cathedral in the Gateway
The Virgin Mary, in marble, stands astride its walls above the portico, arms spread towards the sea, gazing over the precipice...
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 22, 20205 min read
The Slow Sound of Patient Annihilation
Flying around the world in a Twin Otter over the last five years has shown me the enormity of this planet, even as it has shrunk.
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 20, 20202 min read
The Unsubdued Sahara
This was once called Port Etienne and was an aviation outpost of the French mail run from Toulouse to Dakar...
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 11, 20202 min read
The Muse of Saint-Exupéry
Beyond our line of sight from twelve thousand feet the dunes undulate endlessly in the wind, expelling the Harmattan into the sky like smoke
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 3, 20205 min read
The A(frica)-Team
The crew has gelled, and friendships have formed which will outlast this outrageous adventure...we have found our stride in Africa.
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Kevin Mohr
Aug 2, 20203 min read
Under the Harmattan
Before we get close to shore we encounter the Harmattan. The aircraft plows through a sky of dust blown by winter winds from the Sahara...
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 25, 20202 min read
Entropy in Paradise
We bear away from the continent and cross one hundred and fifty nautical miles of water from the mainland out to the island of Sao Tome...
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Message in a Bottle
...drifting past the fervid banks and sandbars littered with the ancient wrecks of steamers, something immortal emergent from...
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 13, 20203 min read
No Stars on the Perimeter
January 17th:
Northern Namibia is a desolation of arid scrub that crawls across the verge of the Kalahari Desert.
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 9, 20203 min read
Crossing the Unknown
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/polynesians-south-americans-1.5643074
...a short interlude from my writing about the Africa tour.
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 8, 20204 min read
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
The flight from Zanzibar to Livingstone reveals once again the sprawling emptiness of this continent...
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 2, 20205 min read
Island of Stone and Spice
"This place, Zanzibar, this is spice island, this is the land of stone and spice," he says.
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Kevin Mohr
Jul 1, 20203 min read
Before the Flood
Through flooded side streets pitted with potholes and scarred with ditches and ruts, our driver forges through the outskirts of Nairobi...
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Kevin Mohr
Jun 30, 20206 min read
In Search of Kilimanjaro
...remote and alien high above the sweltering swards of the African savanna.
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Kevin Mohr
Jun 29, 20205 min read
Into Africa
We landed in Dar es Salam at night and are now slogging our way through this realm of sweat where everybody disappears in the dark...
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