With the Flying Fortress and Lancaster in the supposed competition at the heart of 'Snow Job' flying from New York to Miami, then Montego Bay, Caracas (Venezuela), Georgetown (Guyana), Balem (Brazil), Recife, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Port Alegre, Buenos Aires (Argentina) Mar del Plata and the Falkland Islands, there is plenty of take-off and landing.

And that is on only on the 'going south' leg.

Author Donal James Black uses the routes to give his readers an armchair tour which, although far from making up for the overall deficiencies of Snow Job, do make for an interesting pilot's eye view at points.

So, after a formation take-off from JFK airport and eventually working their way across the Caribbean and South America to Brazil, Stuart (the first-person narrator of the tale) informs us "there is, indeed, a lot of coffee in Brazil, period. Three point two eight eight million square miles, if you want to get specific. Bigger than the whole of the U.S. of A. In fact, if you leave out Alaska (which ought to belong to Canada anyway)."

He writes that Rio de Janeiro is "one spectacular place, lying just north of the Tropic of Capricorn, overlooked by the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain and bordered to the south by the magnificent Copacabana Beach".

The Falklands were famous briefly for the armed tussle over them between England and Argentina, and Black says "other than the narrow bottom end of Souh America, sticking down to the west of them, the Falklands are exposed to open ocean for literally thousands of miles in every direction."

Back on the continent, heading to Chile, Black writes that "if you've ever flown near the Himalayas, or even been within sight of them on the ground, you know what an awe-inspiring sight they are."

After that, the sightseeing stops as Black gets down to the business of the cocaine smuggling shenanigans.