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National Geographic : 1960 Jan
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Continuing their flight to adventure, two young Americans seek new goals in the mountains and deserts of Southwest Asia Sky Road East By TAY and LOWELL THOMAS, JR. With photographs by the authors SOME OF THE WILDEST, most rugged moun tain country we had yet crossed rolled beneath our wings. It boasted few settlements or roads -nowhere that a small plane could land should our one engine cease its steady droning. Down below, more than 20 centuries before, Alexan der the Great and his Macedonian legions had slogged, countermarched, and hacked their way into the ancient Persian world against the chariots of Babylon. Now an aerial chariot nicknamed Charlie, pushed by a strong tail wind, was hurtling us into that same world at 190 miles an hour. We kept a lookout for a par Wool helmet warms copilot and navigator Tay Thomas as she plots a course across mountainous Afghanistan. She sits in the cabin of Charlie, the authors' Cessna airplane. KODACHROMESBY ROBERTF. SISSON (ABOVE) AND TAY AND LOWELLTHOMAS, JR. ) N.G .S. 71
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