Ebook {Epub PDF} Flying Carpet by Richard Halliburton

Above: Richard Halliburton, Moye Stephens and Ramón Novarro in front of The Flying Carpet. Photo courtesy of Moye F. Stephens. Richard Halliburton ran away from his hometown in Memphis at the age of nineteen to lead an extraordinary and dramatic life of adventure. In , adventure junky Richard Halliburton hired Moye Stephens to fly him around the world in a two-seater bi-plane dubbed The Flying Carpet. Along they way, when he wasn’t reading the Arabian Nights or playing his phonograph under that stars to the awestruck locals, he was taking copious notes. What resulted was this book/5. "The Flying Carpet" was Halliburton's fourth and most famous book and details his epic adventures flying a bi-plane through remote parts of the globe. It recounts how Halliburton landed in Timbuctoo, passed over Mt. Everest, flew over the Taj Mahal upside down, and dropped down into the jungles of Borneo to visit native head hunters/5(9).

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Thirsting for a new adventure and announcing that 'an adventure not in the air is obsolete', Richard Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens in and fearlessly set out to circle the world in an open cockpit biplane optimistically named The Flying Carpet. For Halliburton it was the ultimate in romantic, risky exploration and was a means of seeing the world in a way that few had ever seen it before. In , adventure junky Richard Halliburton hired Moye Stephens to fly him around the world in a two-seater bi-plane dubbed The Flying Carpet. Along they way, when he wasn’t reading the Arabian Nights or playing his phonograph under that stars to the awestruck locals, he was taking copious notes. What resulted was this book. Richard Halliburton and Moye Stephens: Traveling Around the World in the ‘Flying Carpet’ One hot afternoon in April , a Stearman C3B biplane, its fuel tanks overflowing and cockpit crammed with two weeks’ food and water, struggled into the air from the French Foreign Legion airstrip at Colomb-Béchar, Algeria.