Aircraft and engine perfect by murad fyzee [rare books]

The path of the true adventurer is a lonely one. There is little room for companions and the road is travelled with very little baggage. In the stories of many full and successful careers has been the imprint of an adventurer. But the one element denied to the true adventurer, whether of the spirit or the flesh, is tranquility. It cannot be otherwise. Hence the restlessness. A well-known critic has said, 'It is the drama of individuation which gives biography its suspense, and cuts through the trivia of a life to its vital mystery. So it has been with JRD..."

"...(the book) will, I believe, be of considerable interest to the general reader, who is as much interested in JRD, the man, as in his particular achievements in aviation. This stress on the man comes through in the right balancing perspective because so much is known about him as the well known industrialist and relatively little, and that too vaguely, about his role in aviation..."