Charles Herbert Flowers, Jr., the subject of Training the Best, is a man whose  skills and accomplishments were so impressive at Tuskegee Army Air Field that he was assigned as a full time flight instructor upon completing his training.  Mr. Flowers was the first student government association president at North Carolina Central University and enjoys the honor of having Charles Herbert Flowers High School - in Springdale, Maryland - named after him.  During the 1940s he performed in air shows and later was a partner in a flight instruction school in North Carolina.  Eventually, Charles Flowers, Jr. spent a long and successful career at Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Curtis Christopher Robinson, the subject of A Pilot's Journey, was a fighter pilot with the 99th Fighter Squadron.  The story, written by George Norfleet,  covers 250 years of Robinson’s family’s history.  Mr. Robinson  was a member of a family that  produced three military officers who served during World War II - he plus two of his brothers - which was a record for that era, and his third brother who served was a staff sergeant.   

In its book review of A Pilot's Journey, the Capitol Hill Voice stated:

   “We know about good books and bad books, heavy books and frivolous books, but we don’t hear too often about books that perform a real service to readers.  A Pilot’s Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, Curtis Christopher Robinson (Robnor Publishing) by George Norfleet is such a book. It educates and illuminates and reminds us that not so long ago in this country – and Washington – was a different place[  ]. But while “A Pilot’s Journey” is never less than honest about the difficulties of being black in 20th Century America, it also celebrates the way Robinson, his forbears and his contemporaries rose well above the limitations placed on them by the government and their fellow citizens.”