On artificial legs, he rebuilt his life and took once again to the air. Simultaneously, his fiancÇe left him and his mother died. In 1944, he lost both of his legs in a glider accident that laid him up in a hospital for several months. Though discouraged from trying to break through the prevailing prejudices, he forged ahead and became one of several African-Americans aviators. Born in Detroit in 1916 to a middle-class African-American family, Loving early developed a fondess for aviation. In this memoir, he describes in astounding detail his journey through the racially discriminatory world of aviation in the 1930s, a crippling glider accident in 1944, and life as a successful aviation educator and engineer. Neal Loving never met an obstacle that he couldn't overcome. "An inspiring story of an African-American double amputee aviator whose triumphs will impress even the most cynical and jaded of readers. First book in the Smithsonian African American Pioneers of Aviation Series, a subset of the Smithsonian History of Aviation Series.
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