November 2012
In “Lost in Oscar Hotel,” J-3 pilot and author Gordon Murray chronicles “the first, longest, slowest and most peculiar flight to Wright Brothers Airport ever made in an antique airplane.”
The flight was a real world record—albeit a strange one. Yet, it was won alongside an accounting of odd discoveries; beautifully captured images by master photographer, Gary Harwood; and the spinning of flying tales.
“Lost in Oscar Hotel” reveals a hidden universe of people involved in that other kind of flying and another kind of life, and distills the stories and pictures to document an existence in a world that stands apart from what the public commonly
knows. It is a story of love, and the nearly forgotten secret that airplanes were the original Internet—invented to bring people in this world together.
An excerpt from the quirkiest air adventure in recent history
From “Lost in Oscar Hotel: There is Something in the Air” by Gordon Murray, Photographs by Gary Harwood. Mirabilis Books, 2013.
