Box Kite to Bali: The Last Great Adventure of a U.S. Navy Pilot
In 1950, George Thackray (“Bee”) Weems was a U.S. Navy test pilot in search of adventure when he flew a De Havilland Dragon Rapide from England to Australia with three other men, including his father, the renowned navigator P.V.H. Weems.
Bee’s amazing account was written just before he died in a plane crash at the age of thirty. The story takes us around the world on the eve of the Cold War in a plywood plane, landing into political turmoil and hazardous conditions at nearly every stop.
Sixty years later, all the photos and materials he carefully saved from this escapade have been brought together and supplemented with fascinating notes and biographical details that provide historical context and bring this story to life.
This is a book for young and old to share—for adventurers and armchair travelers everywhere.
Paperback, 80 pp., full color, 2013
In 1950, George Thackray (“Bee”) Weems was a U.S. Navy test pilot in search of adventure when he flew a De Havilland Dragon Rapide from England to Australia with three other men, including his father, the renowned navigator P.V.H. Weems.
Bee’s amazing account was written just before he died in a plane crash at the age of thirty. The story takes us around the world on the eve of the Cold War in a plywood plane, landing into political turmoil and hazardous conditions at nearly every stop.
Sixty years later, all the photos and materials he carefully saved from this escapade have been brought together and supplemented with fascinating notes and biographical details that provide historical context and bring this story to life.
This is a book for young and old to share—for adventurers and armchair travelers everywhere.
Paperback, 80 pp., full color, 2013
In 1950, George Thackray (“Bee”) Weems was a U.S. Navy test pilot in search of adventure when he flew a De Havilland Dragon Rapide from England to Australia with three other men, including his father, the renowned navigator P.V.H. Weems.
Bee’s amazing account was written just before he died in a plane crash at the age of thirty. The story takes us around the world on the eve of the Cold War in a plywood plane, landing into political turmoil and hazardous conditions at nearly every stop.
Sixty years later, all the photos and materials he carefully saved from this escapade have been brought together and supplemented with fascinating notes and biographical details that provide historical context and bring this story to life.
This is a book for young and old to share—for adventurers and armchair travelers everywhere.
Paperback, 80 pp., full color, 2013
