There's been a lack of content on the blog in recent months because I've been fully engrossed in writing and publishing my first book.
*Airborne: Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike * is published by Goose Lane Editions and will be available starting February 19th. I've included some background and ordering information below BUT if you're in Ottawa, please hold off. We'll be having a launch party on March 6th from 7 to 9 at the Metropolitain Brasserie (700 Sussex Drive) where I'll have books on hand and would be happy to sign them.
I'll also be posting an excerpt from the book this Friday. Stay tuned for that!
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| The cover page of the forthcoming *Airborne*, beautifully realized by Julie Scriver with images from Charlie Miller, Anna Gaudio and Ernie Szelepcsenyi. |
Airborne: Finding Foxtrot Alpha Mike
Jonathan Rotondo
Jonathan Rotondo
Soon to be available at your local bookstore!
The RUSH of speed
the PULL of gravity
the MAGIC of flight
the PULL of gravity
the MAGIC of flight
Jonathan Rotondo was 28 when his father, Anotonio, died. Numb with his grief, Rotondo decided to track down the object that had once given his father so much joy: a tiny single-seat biplane called Charlie Foxtrot Foxtrot Alpha Mike. Thus began Rotondo’s journey to trace his father’s life from Italy to Canada, via the plains of East Africa.
In the sanctum of a tiny single-seat biplane, a DSA-1 Smith Miniplane, Antonio Rotondo discovered the miracle of flight. A farmer's son from San Giacomo, Antonio took his first flight over Nairobi, Kenya, in 1970 at the age of 24. By 1976, he had become a commercial pilot. Then, in the early 1980s, he purchased a single-seat, open-cockpit, home-built Smith biplane, a throwback to leather flying caps, gauntlets, pencil-thin moustaches, and twinkling eyes behind oil-speckled goggles.
In the sanctum of a tiny single-seat biplane, a DSA-1 Smith Miniplane, Antonio Rotondo discovered the miracle of flight. A farmer's son from San Giacomo, Antonio took his first flight over Nairobi, Kenya, in 1970 at the age of 24. By 1976, he had become a commercial pilot. Then, in the early 1980s, he purchased a single-seat, open-cockpit, home-built Smith biplane, a throwback to leather flying caps, gauntlets, pencil-thin moustaches, and twinkling eyes behind oil-speckled goggles.
More than three decades later, Antonio's son, Jonathan, came across one of only three airworthy Smith biplanes and thus began a journey to retrace his father's airborne life. He finds Antonio's first flying instructor, an Australian ex-pat living in Kenya; the soft-spoken Swiss-Canadian who managed to get Antonio's biplane into the air; the free-spirit dreamer who bought it to dogfight with his mates; and the air traffic controller who, as a teenager, bought the plans to build the biplane that Jonathan would fly 35 years later.
For more information on this book, please click here.
This is such a huge accomplishment! We are so proud of you, my Love!
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