The Perfect Flying Machine
A graduate of Harvard, class of 1929, GUY MURCHIE, JR., was a navigator of transport planes from 1942 to 1945. In the process he acquired an unusually observant knowledge of all things pertaining to the sky, including the wind, the clouds, the birds, and those cumbersome devices with which, over the centuries, man has striven to keep himself aloft. Mr. Murchie’s new book, Song of the Sky, from which the following article has been drawn, is the December selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and is being published by Houghton Mifflin.