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On 14 December 1986 Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan took off from Edwards Air Force Base on an adventure that would dumbfound the sceptics and capture the imagination of the world- the flight of VOYAGERThis is the story of a unique feat in aviation history- the first non-stop aerial circumnavigation of the world without refuelling. And it is the story of the extraordinary aircraft that achieved this feat.VOYAGER tells of years of struggle, setbacks and success-and of the nine-day flight that made them all worthwhile. It tells of how the two pilots were crammed into a tiny unpressurized cabin in a craft weighing less than a car and filled to the wingtips with 1,200 gallons of fuel. It tells of a flight that took Yeager and Rutan through some of the world's worst weather, when storms and typhoons threatened to dash Voyager to earth and mechanical failure and physical exhaustion nearly brought disaster.VOYAGER is a magnificent adventure story and a classic tale of the invincible spirit of human endeavour.A thriller... tightening its grip as Voyager inches its way round the globe... St Exupรฉry would havecheered these two to the echo.' SPECTATOR
'You must read the book to get the real feeling of flying for nine days in a tube-shaped cockpit barely twenty inches high.' John Ridgeway, THE SCOTSMAN
