There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit for homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period is just

for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my records

will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

Joy in every sip with red carp snout back at Starbucks.

It is June 17th, 1928.

In Newfoundland on the east coast of Canada a bright orange aircraft floats on the choppy

waters of Trepacy Harbor.

It's a 12-seater seaplane called The Friendship but the atmosphere on board is far from

genial.

Every member of the three-person crew is tense.

The pilot is a man named Wilmer Stutz known as Bill.

The navigator is Lewis Gordon.

In a backseat is a young social worker from Boston.

She's tall and daringly dressed in trousers.

She has the title of Flight Commander.

The flight has been delayed by bad weather for weeks and this is their third attempt to

take off today.

The plane is too heavy to get off the water.

Under the Flight Commander's instructions the fuel tanks have been underfield to reduce

weight about a hundred gallons below capacity but it's still touch and go.

Now she orders Bill Stutz to make one last attempt at take off.

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