When I joined my first airline many years ago, the old captains loved to say that the reading of Ernest K. Gann's "Fate is the Hunter" should be compulsory for new crew, so they could understand how airlines work.   It struck me that maybe the same could be said if you want to build a model of a Zero, that this book should be compulsory...     I have only just completed reading it, and it is a real eye opener. I knew about the Saburo Sakai story for many years thou