A Race to Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured each the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air power, rising to Captain by the age of 21. When he might now not tolerate life underneath the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew throughout the Iron Curtain to freedom. He went to work for the CIA and was finally despatched to the US and given a job as Invoice Boeing, Jr’s private pilot. When Boeing started racing Hydroplanes within the late Fifties, Mira was his driver. Throughout his ten 12 months profession as a hydroplane driver, he gained many races and two nationwide championships. He met Presidents and dated film starlets. After a severe hydroplane accident, Slovak switched to airplanes the place he gained one other nationwide championship. When he retired from racing he grew to become a stunt pilot and public speaker and talked in regards to the worth of freedom and the way we must always worth it above all the pieces else. He outlasted Communism and when it collapsed in 1990 he returned to his dwelling, solely to comprehend that his true dwelling was, and at all times would, be the USA.