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...Eagle. A licensed pilot, he is a dedicated weekend flyer. It was Hughes who inspired and helped report our recent story [July 7] on the fad of crossing the Atlantic in small aircraft. Flying as copilot with a professional who was ferrying a twin-engined Piper Aztec from Boston to Geneva, Hughes crossed in three days of which twenty hours were actual flying time. There were stops for fueling in Gander, a haircut in Reykjavik, and golf in Prestwick. Then, vacationing in Europe, Hughes escaped rain in Switzerland by flying to Spain. On that flight, his passenger...
...flying itself." To New York Real Estate Broker Edward Cowen, such a trip offers "both pleasure and challenge," but there is no question in his mind that "the whole thing is dangerous." Says Earl Howard of Ames, Iowa, who, with his wife as copilot, flew his twin-engine Piper Aztec to a Rotary International convention in Nice this year: "If cost is a problem, I'd suggest forgetting a trip like this. But if you get as much satisfaction from it as we did, it's worth every cent...
...once a flying vacationer is willing to assume the high risks and costs, there is nothing to compare with the experience. Says Stockton, Calif., Industrialist Herman P. Miller, who has flown his Piper Aztec across both the Atlantic and the Pacific: "By the time I land, I know more about the terrain, the agriculture, the roads, the housing than most of the people who live there. I've got an education before I even touch the ground...
CORTEZ AND THE LEGEND (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Kirk Douglas narrates the epic of Hernando Cortez's conquest of Mexico. Cameras retrace the route taken by Cortez and his band from Tabasco, where they landed in 1519, to Mexico City, site of Montezuma's Aztec capital, which they destroyed...
...Ventura county to become a real estate millionaire, Bravo, 57, established the first free clinic for Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles (opened in 1941, after Bravo won his medical degree from Stanford), founded a scholarship fund that has dispensed more than $100,000 to brainy pochos, and owns an Aztec-modern bank, with assets of $4,000,000, in East Los Angeles...