I’m sure it was for you and I’m sure it’ll stay with you as well. Absolutely brilliant book. Best!

Also, Eric. I’m so glad to hear how much you enjoyed China’s Wings. A labor of love, for sure.

Yes, the CNAC pilots and the Eurasia men were quite chummy. A few of them were friends, I think Chuck Sharp with their chief pilot, especially. There are a few books that treat Eurasia. One, whose title I can’t recall right now, has English translations to accompany the German text. Relations cooled down after 1939, as you might well imagine, but many of the Eurasia personnel had come to the Orient to avoid having to deal with the Nazis.

William Bond fretted about CNAC’s competition with Eurasia in a lot of his correspondence, and he spent a lot of energy trying to head off Eurasia’s bureaucratic maneuverings.

No need, but thanks! China’s Wings, by the way, is just a fantastic book, by the way. Best history I’ve read in a very long time! Maybe you could do a second book like “Tales of CNAC” or something to include the various outtakes from Wings.

For that matter, I’d be interested to learn more about Eurasia Corporation. They sort or lurk in the shadows of China’s Wings. Were their pilots and administrators Germans as CNAC’s were American? Obviously they were competitors, but on a personal level between fellow pilots and expats, I suspect their relations might have been civil if not friendly with CNAC personnel – at least up to the very late 1930s. (You mention in Wings that Eurasia personnel shared the Telefunken Peilgerät with CNAC after the Kweilin Incident and Japanese occupation of Guangzhou [Canton] made night flights unavoidable. Such technology exchange suggests their relations were at least gentlemanly if not chummy. Did Eurasia show up much in CNAC documents/correspondence?

Eric, also, I credited you in my correction above. Thanks. ;-)

Eric! Thank you very much. Yes, clearly, you are correct, and I appreciate you bringing that error to my attention. Cheers, Greg