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The Mira Slovak Story Release Date

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The Mira Slovak Story Release Date

Time: May 28, 2018 all day
Location: Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum
Street: 5917 South 196th Street
City/Town: Kent, WA 98032
Website or Map: http://www.thunderboats.org/
Phone: (206) 764-9453
Event Type: book release
Organized By: Hydroplane Museum
Latest Activity: Apr 23, 2018

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Event Description

David William's new book, A Race to Freedom - The Mira Slovak Story, will be available from the Museum Store on May 28th.

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air force, rising to captain by the age of twenty-one. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom. He went to work for the CIA and was eventually sent to the US and given a job as Bill Boeing, Jr.'s personal pilot. When Boeing began racing hydroplanes in the late 1950s, Mira was his driver. During his ten-year career as a hydroplane driver, he won many races and two national championships. He met presidents and dated movie starlets. After a serious hydroplane accident, Slovak switched to airplanes, and won another national championship. When he retired from racing, he became a stunt pilot and public speaker and talked about the value of freedom and how we should value it above everything else. He outlasted Communism and when it collapsed in 1990, he returned to his home, only to realize that his true home was, and always would be, the United States.

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