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Airline pilot, broadcaster, sailor, speaker, and now author, Captain Russ Roberts is not so much an adventurer as a lifetime collector of experiences and stories. Roberts flew the Atlantic alone in single-engine airplanes, sailed the Northwest Passage over the Canadian arctic, helped blow up his boyhood backyard with dynamite, was the youngest licensed flight instructor in America, shared a VW with a moose, and commanded airliners around the world. In his first book, "Unlearning to Fly: Navigating the Turbulence and Bliss of Growing Up in the Sky," Russ Roberts tells a heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking story of how airplanes were the golden thread that secured an otherwise turbulent start to life.
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    • Unlearning to Fly

    • Navigating the Turbulence and Bliss of Growing Up in the Sky
    • Written by: Russ Roberts
    • Narrated by: Russ Roberts
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2026-04-29
    • Language: English
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