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Text and photographs © 2016 by Noel Merrill Wien, except as noted

Foreword © 2016 by Major General William Anders

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wien, Noel Merrill, 1930- author.

Title: Noel Merrill Wien, born to fly / Noel Merrill Wien.

Other titles: Born to fly

Description: Portland, Oregon : Alaska Northwest Books, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041462 | ISBN 9781943328406 (pbk.) ISBN 9781943328413 (e-book) ISBN 97819433284958 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Wien, Noel Merrill, 1930- | Air pilots—United States—Biography. | Aeronautics—Alaska—History.

Classification: LCC TL540.W5133 A3 2016 | DDC 629.13092—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041462

Front cover, left: This is Howard Wright’s Hamilton Metalplane, the same model that my dad flew in the 1929 historic first round-trip flight between North America and Asia. What a thrill for me to have been able to fly it. Photo courtesy of Phil Makanna/Ghosts; center: A recent photo of me wearing a cap with the Heritage Flight Museum’s logo. Photo courtesy of Phil Makanna/Ghosts; right: Me as a toddler in pilot gear. Back cover, left: Taken in Tokyo while on a Genetrix mission, 1955; center: Wiley Post and Will Rogers arriving on the Chena River near Fairbanks, 1935; right: Bill Anders on my left wing during a formation flight. Photo © Lyle Jansma. Chapter opening airplane clip art © Rui Matos | Dreamstime.com

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