This week on our Public Affairs Program, Sunday at 5a:

This week we’ll learn of the heroic exploits of a young man who defected from behind the iron curtain in the early 1950s by flying a Czech Airliner to freedom. Later becoming the personal pilot to Bill Boeing Jr., working for the CIA, a stunt pilot, an airplane and hydroplane racer and national champion; Mira Slovak’s story has been preserved for us in a new book by our guest David Williams. A Race To Freedom: The Mira Slovak Story is a fascinating biography that teaches the depth of desire for freedom that seems innate in all of us.

The book goes on sale this week on Amazon.com as well as at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent.

David Williams will do a book signing at the museum on June 8th.

www.thunderboats.org