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Flight of the Gin Fizz

by Henry Kisor(Kindle Edition)

4.3 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	3702 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Word Wise	:	Enabled
Print length	:	416 pages
Lending	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported

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Taking Off on a Sensory Adventure

As your glass is prepared before your eyes, you can anticipate the journey that awaits you. The exquisite aroma of juniper berries, the fizzing bubbles as each element is carefully added to the mix, and the captivating visual presentation all contribute to the excitement of the Flight Of The Gin Fizz.

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Flight of the Gin Fizz

by Henry Kisor(Kindle Edition)

4.3 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	3702 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Word Wise	:	Enabled
Print length	:	416 pages
Lending	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported

FREE

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 1997. "'Flight of the Gin Fizz' might easily be read as an inspirational tract, but it is not primarily concerned with selling sentimentality to the politically correct. What Kisor allows us to share is a more private drama: one man's almost giddy sense of stepping into another dimension of living, his awareness that he is becoming a hero to himself. He will never be the same, lucky fellow."—Donal Henahan, The New York Times Book Review

Henry Kisor didn’t realize what he was getting himself into when a friend invited him aboard his small plane one afternoon, but as the engine revved and the craft took flight, he found himself exhilarated as never before. Fifty-three years old, Kisor had looked into a mirror and saw staring back ”a man who was short, fat, bald, bespectacled, and deaf.” He needed to reclaim his zest for life, and he found the answer in learning how to fly.

Kisor’s dream begins to take shape when he learns that radio communications are not required in most of America’s airspace, and that ”visual flight rules” are the same for hearing and deaf pilots alike. With the eagerness of newfound youth, he throws himself into his lessons and plans a suitable maiden voyage: a reenactment of Cal Rodgers’s 1911 journey from New York to Los Angeles, the first coast-to-coast flight. Along the way, Kisor learns that Rodgers himself suffered from severe hearing loss, which adds an unexpected personal connection to the enterprise.

Soon after getting his license, Kisor falls in love with a thirty-six-year-old beauty: a classic Cessna two-seater that he buys and renames "Gin Fizz," in honor of Rodgers’s "Vin Fiz" (itself named after a popular soft drink of the day). He then plans out his trip and invites the reader into the cockpit as he takes to the air, dodging storms and greasing landings on a journey across America that recalls the derring-do of the early days of aviation.

Landing sixty-five times along a route that takes him from New York to Chicago to Texas to California, Kisor introduces us to the men and women who make up the ”brotherhood of aviation”—those who staff the airports, repair the planes, teach student pilots, ferry skydivers (and sometimes jump themselves),and perform aerobatic stunts —and who open a window onto a rich and charming side of American life and lore.

But "Flight of the Gin Fizz" is an internal journey, too, as Kisor slowly shakes off the midlife blues that had led him to the Cessna’s left seat in the first place. As he proceeds west toward his goal, Kisor learns how to push the envelope of his own capacities, reaching new levels of proficiency and self-reliance, and stretching the limits of his familiar landbound life.

For pilots, passengers, and armchair travelers of all stripes, Kisor offers an unforgettable voyage of self discovery and high adventure—and a new appreciation of life’s possibilities.