Voyager SIGNED by Jeana Yeager / Hardcover / Richard Rutan Phil Patton

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 ABOUT THIS: On December 14, 1986, Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan took off from Edwards Air Force Base, in California's Mojave Desert, on their history-making flight—the first to circle the globe non-stop without refueling. The flight required almost superhuman physical and psychological effort the two pilots spending nine days in an unpressurized cockpit, 3'/2 feet wide by 7 feet long. The plane weighed less than an automobile (2,000 pounds empty) and carried 1,200 gallons of fuel. The nine-day flight took them west over the Pacific through violent winds and turbulences, through life-threatening mechanical failures, at times over forbidden countries. Both pilots experienced high spirits and exhausting emotional let-downs... until finally, on December 23, 48 hours ahead of schedule, Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan completed the circle with their triumphal landing. Now they tell in vivid detail what it was like to make the flight, what happened during the years of dreaming, planning, and hard work that culminated in the triumph of Voyager, and what it was in their own lives that led them to their extraordi-nary partnership and undertaking. They take us from their growing-up years (he, racing motorcycles and learning to fly at fifteen; she, isolated, shy, but most of all fearless, from a very early age making horses the center of her life and training the "untrainable"); through his years as a fighter jock, volunteering for 105 missions over North Vietnam; through her years of training to be the first woman in space (the project, pri-vately funded, was ultimately abandoned); to their fateful meeting at an airshow in California, 

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