2: Novelist, journalist, essayist, and pilot, LAURENCE GONZALES. He has a new book about his love affair with flying, "One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation." (Simon & Schuster). His love affair with flying began early, listening to the stories his mother told of his father's last flight in a B-17 bomber over Dusseldorf in World War II. (His father survived the war). GONZALES is a commercial pilot and he competes in aerobatics flying as well. "One Zero Charlie" is the term for the Galt Airfield in Illinois that he flys out of.
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