The Vaulted Sky
Author | : Richard Moffa |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781440152528 |
ISBN-13 | : 1440152527 |
Rating | : 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The flying business seizes Patrick Montalto at an early age. A young, Italian-American from New York, his earliest memories of a fragile biplane avoiding a disastrous end on a summers day in the country provide the single-minded impetus to an improbable journey. It starts when his father and a friend chip in for a harmless airplane ride from a small grass airstrip in the Westchester hills. It is a coming of age journey as Patrick learns to fly on that field during a Depression that doesnt allow for many dreams. As the Second World War engulfs Europe, it takes Patrick to a barely clandestine British operation to recruit American flyers, where he has to choose between one dream of the sky and another of a college education.