It comes both as warning and wisdom when you flip through this very personal adventure ride of Virgin's Richard Branson. Those who are acaqainted to see him only in "sleazy" promos for his airline, now he is more visible at book stands. And very passionately shares his passion for flight and how to turn that into billion dollars. But he doesn't share that you need to have that in you which he was borth with -- a sky full of privileges. Even then, his book is a moderate read if it's not cnverted into a Discover Channel documentary soon. Opt for the documentary, though belated...
When passion takes wings, only sky is the limit. Or may be not. Richard Branson shares this mantra of what he calls the “spaceport”, the aerospace adventures, in Reach for the Sky, a story of him and his pals who dared to circumnavigate the world surfing through air. Dedicated to his childhood hero, the Word War II veteran Douglas Bader, the book chronicles the evolution of flight that Wright Brothers set off and aeronautical engineers like Burt Rutan sculpted to the perfection and to the delight of enthusiasts like Robert Fosset and Branson himself. Fosset leads the bogey of madmen who devoted their lives to their dreams to sail around the world in planes, balloons and airships, before their adventure devour them. Branson narrates how he himself survived many a flight in balloon or planes landing midway into sea and mountains. But his passion to take wings remains ablaze. Branson sums it up with Mark Twain — “We shall see what we shall see, before we die. I have a dream — a world of it.”
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