Luminous Airplanes

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Emily Barton, Amy Benfer, Wayne Chambliss, Rebecca Godfrey, Maureen Howard, Noah Millman, Ethan Nosowsky, Herb Wilson, and Jeff Zacks for reading some of the many non-flying versions of this book.

Thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Bard College, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ledig House/Art Omi, and the Château de Lavigny for supporting my experiments.

Thanks to the incomparable Gloria Loomis and Julia Masnik at Watkins/Loomis, and to Jesse Coleman at Farrar, Straus and Giroux for getting the book off the ground.

Finally, thanks — more than thanks — to Sarah Stern, who never stopped believing that Luminous Airplanes could fly.