Octane Press has released “Landings in America — Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub” by Peter Egan.
“Set in 1987, the memoir follows Egan and his wife Barb as they hop their 1945 Piper Cub across the U.S., covering 7,000 miles with only a tent, some cash, and no radio,” publishing officials said. “But what they lacked in avionics, they made up for in curiosity — and the freedom that only low-and-slow flying can offer.”
Through forgotten grass strips, sleepy towns, and isolated fuel stops, Egan paints a vivid portrait of general aviation in its most romantic and accessible form.
“It’s not a how-to guide — it’s a why-to,” officials said, adding it’s the “kind of story that reminds you why you ever fell in love with aviation in the first place.”
Egan, best known for his writing in Cycle World and Road & Track, is a lifelong aviation enthusiast and pilot. He and his wife Barb learned to fly at Orange County Airport in California in the 1980s and soon purchased their yellow Piper Cub.
Though known for motorcycles and sports cars, his Cub allowed him to revisit those same quiet towns from a different altitude, the publishers note.
The book is available for $34.95 at Octane Press and wherever books are sold.
For more information: OctanePress.com
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