William Langewiesche
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"William Langewiesche" (pronounced:long-gah-vee-shuh) (born June 12, 1955) is an American author and journalist who was also a professional airplane pilot for many years. Since 2006 he has been the international correspondent for Vanity Fair (magazine)/Vanity Fair magazine.

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So much of who we are is where we have been.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

The site roared twenty-four hours a day for nine full months and beyond. From autumn through winter and into spring the crews labored in twelve-hour shifts, got some sleep, and came back for more. The enormous scale of their workplace is difficult to convey.

The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small.