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“Nous demandons à boire, mais nous demandons aussi à communiquer.”(“We need to drink, but also we need to communicate.”)– Antoine de Saint ExupéryIt’s one of my favorite literary aviation quotations – the pilot, rescued from a crash in the desert,…

Our morning in El Paso included our second really classic early 20th century US Post Office, which we now seem to be collecting (there was one in Phoenix, too), and a ride on El Paso’s amazing restored trolley cars which…

We wandered around downtown Phoenix in the morning waiting for the weather to clear and the winds to settle further east, then flew at 9500 feet most of the way from Phoenix to El Paso. Here’s what was notable today:Tim…

We actually REALLY DID start our trip yesterday, and this morning we are in Phoenix!We didn’t plan to be in Phoenix. We planned to spend the night in Gila Bend, Arizona, and indeed that’s where we landed, after routing through…

How I would love to tell you that we landed in Gila Bend, Arizona, yesterday afternoon, and drank margaritas at their Cinco de Mayo Festival!But I would be making it up because we never got off the ground yesterday. We…

That’s Corona Municipal Airport, an hour outside Los Angeles, where we’re starting from. Yesterday I had my first flight in One Bravo Juliet, with Eric Cordova as my instructor  – joining the circuit and landing at Riverside, then Chino, and…

2 May 2024I write this sitting in a Best Western Courtyard in Corona, California. Tomorrow begins my biggest flight adventure ever, though it takes some topping (“Flying across Kenya,” “Niagara Falls from the gun turret of a Lancaster bomber,” “A…

Three inches of rain fell in Los Angeles the day I arrived to celebrate the launch of American Wings: Chicago’s Pioneering Black Aviators and the Race for Equality in the Sky. In American Wings, fellow YA author Sherri L. Smith…

Here’s a bit of a Virtual Book Tour for my new novel, Stateless, with videos and interviews that I’ve done to promote the book for its release in the USA and Canada on 14 March and in the UK on…

In honor of the tenth (TENTH!) anniversary of Code Name Verity’s release, there’s a new edition containing additional material – a short story, a retrospective essay, and author Q&A.I thought I’d celebrate here by revisiting this shout-out from a certain Scottish wireless…