title: Chasing Planes: Adventures of an Airplane Fanatic
author: Gordon R. Page
description: Gordon R. Page is past president of the Colorado Aviation Historical Society, founder of the Spirit of Flight Center air museum in Erie, Colorado, and was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. Page lives with his family in Louisville, Colorado, where he owns and operates an aircraft sales and appraisal business.
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  > Drake’s Drum
  
  > Nicholas Sumner
  
  Cover artwork by Jack Tindale
  
  First published by Sea Lion Press in 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > For Barbara; who believed in this book when I didn’t.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He goes directly from headquarters to the airport, his car passing swiftly
  through the streets of the darkened capital, escorted by two motorcycle
  outriders. They are not really necessary. There is hardly anyone around in the
  late cool hours of an autumn evening. The light aircraft is waiting for him as
  they had said it would be, its engine already turning. The pilot is busy with
  the last of his pre-flight checks; he looks tired, exhausted in fact, but
  salutes when he sees the Colonel’s uniform.
  
  The Colonel makes himself as comfortable as he can in the cramped interior of
  the aircraft. As they climb into the night, the little plane shakes and rocks
  in turbulence, the sound of its engine changing as it reaches altitude. His
  eyes probe the starless darkness outside the window but find nothing