Duncan Kunz
Senior Member
582 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 04-25-2002 10:30 AM
Antoine de St-Exupéry (1900-1944) was one of the finest humans to fly a plane. Noted most for his famous story The Little Prince (Le Petite Prince), St-Exupéry was also a pioneering aviator between the World Wars, and the airport in Lyons, France is named after him. He returned from Exile in the US to France to fly with the Free French against the fascists; in 1944 he set out on a mission in his Lockheed P-38 from which he never returned. Comment merveilleux ! Comment formidable!In his last book, "return to Arras" (1942), St-Exupéry writes in Chapter 8: "The disturbance created by our meteoric flight crystallizes the watery vapor in the atmosphere. We unwind behind us a cirrus of icicles. If the atmospheric conditions are favorable to the formation of clouds, our wake will thicken bit by bit and become an evening cloud over the countryside".
------------------ Duncan Kunz / duncankunz@cox.net Mesa AZ / 480-891-2525 
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