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...their case, more than half the fun of travel is getting there. "Flying," says New York Film Producer Sidney Stiber, who pilots a Cessna 320, "gives you a combination of the satisfaction of intellectual accomplishment and the esthetics of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Doing the Lindy | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...Narsarssuak airfield (known to thousands of World War II flyers as Bluie West One) is as often as not socked in blind by icy mists. Even though it is daylight almost round the clock along that route in summer, there are few landmarks to use as checkpoints. As Pilot Stiber says, "Any man who doesn't completely understand dead-reckoning navigation [using only charts and compass] had better stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Doing the Lindy | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

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