It was 1918 and twenty-six-year-old George Austin, a small city journalist, was sent to cover the story of retired US Army colonel, Gordon Victor Remington, and the launch of his newest flying machine rigid airship called GR-5 Cedar Dell.
At the suggestion of the Colonels attractive secretary, Sarah Kelly, he was invited to accompany nineteen influential dignitaries on a demonstration flight around Cape Cod and the islands of Massachusetts.
George hoped the story of that flight would cause his stalled journalistic career to finally take off.