Chapter 5 Summary

Gypsy fliers need a long, smooth, close-cut field near a town with an access road and the field owner's permission. Richard thinks about this as he flies next to Shimoda. Spotting a field too small for a Travel Air, Richard performs a show-off landing and is about to rejoin his friend in the air when he sees Shimoda approaching so slowly his plane should stall. The three-point landing leaves Richard dumbfounded.

The first customers arrive as Richard asks about the landing. Suddenly furious that Richard has not known this, Shimoda says the answer to floating tools, healing sickness, turning water into wine, walking on water, and landing Travel Airs on 100 feet of grass all come from realizing the world and everything in it are illusion. All day, Richard watches the Travel Air perform like an E-2 Cub or helicopter and recalls hearing as...