R.W. ''Buzz'' Kaplan: The Life of an Adventurer

REGULARLY $75, now $37.50 - discount taken at checkout. (Good through 2024. )   Reuben W. "Buzz" Kaplan was born in 1924 in Owatonna, Minnesota. His travels began when he joined the US Army and was sent to Germany in 1943 to fight in World War II. Upon returning home he earned his pilot's license and pursued the life of an adventurer. He flew his airplanes in over seventy-five countries and six continents winning numerous awards for his flight achievements.Buzz's adventures included a wild game hunt in Africa, numerous Arctic fishing trips, and Friendship Flights to the Soviet Union Europe and South America. As part of the Greenland Expedition, he worked to recover airplanes from the Lost Squadron buried 270 feet below the Greenland ice cap. His airplane restoration company, Born Again Restorations. rebuilt a Savoia-Marchetti flying boat which became the oldest Italian airplane in operation. In 1988 he landed it on Lake Geneva Switzerland -a  first since 1912, and in 1990 he flew it a