Three great pilots
CNAC’s first three Chinese-American pilots: Joy Thom of Los Angeles, Moon Chin of Wing-Wa Village and Baltimore, Donald Wong of Chicago. All three were bo...
Tag: veterans of CNAC
Stories and photos related to veterans of the China National Aviation Corporation and China’s Wings, by Gregory Crouch
The first hints of something much more substantial…
I had one of my life’s best 24-hour pushes in New York: at Bantam, I lunched with John Flicker, my acquiring editor (thanks, John!), and Nita Taublib , who mig...
“I have no doubt I could start it up and fly her out of here.”
CNAC veterans Fletcher “Christy” Hanks and Gifford Bull scrambled up the ladder into the plane and made a bee-line for the cockpit. I clambered up a...
“Back then, I was younger than you are now.”
The reunion room thundered with band of brothers camaraderie, packed with overjoyed old dudes slapping backs and bellowing into each other’s hearing aids, faces...
You’d better hope you fall in love with it
Us narrative non-fiction guys and gals are pretty dependent on the quality of the stories we discover. A story swallows a massive chunk of your life if you deci...