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I came across this video will looking for something else.  Robert Buck set the transcontinental speed record for a junior at 16 (when you could get a license at 16) and several other records, started flying DC2's for TWA, flew a B-17 on purpose through the most violent thunderstorms he could find to learn about weather, flew a 707 around the world pole to pole, and retired a TWA 747 Captain.  Wrote a lot of great books including Weather Flying and his autobiography North Star Over My Shoulder.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?170568-1/book-discussion-north-star-shoulder

Covers some interesting topics that I thought some might find of interest.

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This past Christmas, being the nice guy that I am, Santa Claus brought me his book:

Robert  N. Buck & Robert A. Buck, Weather Flying, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2013, Hardback. 

A fine addition to my library. There's so much practical knowledge in this book that it should be required reading for pilots!

And that video helps put a face behind the name! 

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