Inside the Outdoors: Flight is an everyday miracle too little appreciated

Inside the Outdoors: Flight is an everyday miracle too little appreciated

A late acquaintance of mine, many years my senior, was as a young man so fascinated by birds that he chose them as his field of study in college. As luck would have it, luck both bad and good, this may have led to his becoming a fighter pilot — an ace, no less — during an interruption for military service in the Second World War. To him, the dynamics of flight were both fascinating and miraculous, not just in theory but also in practice. In post…