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A Pilot's Ups and Downs

Author : Alasdair Sutherland
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1035819791
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book A Pilot's Ups and Downs written by Alasdair Sutherland and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every 1,000 people who applied to be airline pilots in BEA/BOAC back in the day, about four made it. The other 996, plus their wives, parents, and children, might wonder how their lives could have turned out, so here is the story of one of the four. Besides, the passengers who sit behind that locked door and trust us with their lives must wonder, “What goes on up there, and how does it affect their lives and families?” My education included the University Air Squadron, then learning to fly at the College sponsored by British Airways. There is a chapter of general information on aviation, then most of the book is an account of my experiences, whether dramatic, disappointing, exciting, or amusing, during my varied career in British Airways. Some incidents occur within the cockpit, others in social interaction outside, and a few come from pilot folklore. I also describe visits to sights around the world, an aspect that draws people to aviation as a career, and interests everyone. I have added one professional pilot’s opinion on aviation topics in the news, the mysterious Malaysian disappearance, and the Alpine tragedy, and finish with my lifelong interest in designing model aircraft.

Ups and Downs

Author : Kathryn Anne McCullough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939275431
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Ups and Downs written by Kathryn Anne McCullough and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy McCullough learned to fly at the age of sixteen, but her story began much earlier. Her challengers, accomplishments, and indomitable spirit come to life within the pages of Ups and Downs. Becoming the fourth woman pilot hired by Northwest Orient Airlines in 1981 and earning her captain wings in the Boeing 747 a quarter of a century later, was not an easy journey. There is no better way to understand the gender issues in a cockpit than through the eyes of a woman pilot who lived the many challenges. Kathy takes us on the flight of he life with compelling stories of what it took to get into the cockpit of the largest airplane of its time, and what it took to stay there. Now retired, Kathy lives with her husband Kevin on a wheat ranch in eastern Oregon. She shares her experiences with young adults, inspiring them to explore the world. Everyone who has a goal in life will see herself in the pages of this book. Anyone who has had a dream come true will empathize with the struggle it takes to make that dream a reality. And each of us who has a thirst for adventure can take a long drink from these pages. What does it take to become a female pilot? Exactly the same thing it takes for you to achieve your dreams.

Ups and Downs with No Regrets

Author : Vic Shayne
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 147594604X
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Ups and Downs with No Regrets written by Vic Shayne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny morning in 1927, George Lichter, barely six years old, donned his new skates and rolled to the beach at Gravesend Bay where he witnessed a spectacle that would determine the course of his life. As he watched an airplane take off from the water and fly over the city, he decided he would one day become a pilot. George held onto this dream throughout his childhood in Brooklyn, wild adventures as a trumpet player in the Borscht belt and during his escapades at college in, of all places, the Deep South. A week before his twentieth birthday in 1941, immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, George rode the subway to the nearest recruiting center and joined the United States Air Force. By the end of WWII, having flown eighty-eight combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, he had become a decorated fighter pilot. Two years later, in 1947, retired from the Air Force, he learned that the new nation of Israel was about to be attacked by its Arab neighbors. Though George felt the Jewish State had no chance of survival against such insurmountable odds, he knew he had to help. He signed up as a Machalnik (volunteer) and was assigned to an air base in Czechoslovakia where he helped train Israel’s first fighter pilots. Within a year they owned the skies over their new nation.

Ups and Downs of Aerial Smuggling

Author : Conrad Bernier
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146696541X
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Ups and Downs of Aerial Smuggling written by Conrad Bernier and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I escaped jail for the second time and finally got out of Colombia. I should have been happy, but my feelings were forlorn. I could never return. I would never drink the waters or the local rum or a perfect cup of coffee again. I already missed my friends, associates, and all our pleasant, exciting times together. With two counts of jailbreak, possession of six thousand pounds of marijuana, and violation of Colombian airspace, I would serve a total of twenty years in prison if I ever return. Good-bye, Colombia. I shall always think of you with love.

Skyfaring

Author : Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351828
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Skyfaring written by Mark Vanhoenacker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.

Hi-sky!

Author : Alec McAlister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Hi-sky! written by Alec McAlister and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Army Aviation Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book United States Army Aviation Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

FAA General Aviation News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book FAA General Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ups and Downs with No Regrets

Author : Vic Shayne
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475946055
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Ups and Downs with No Regrets written by Vic Shayne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a sunny morning in 1927, George Lichter, barely six years old, donned his new skates and rolled to the beach at Gravesend Bay where he witnessed a spectacle that would determine the course of his life. As he watched an airplane take off from the water and fly over the city, he decided he would one day become a pilot. George held onto this dream throughout his childhood in Brooklyn, wild adventures as a trumpet player in the Borscht belt and during his escapades at college in, of all places, the Deep South. A week before his twentieth birthday in 1941, immediately following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, George rode the subway to the nearest recruiting center and joined the United States Air Force. By the end of WWII, having flown eighty-eight combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, he had become a decorated fighter pilot. Two years later, in 1947, retired from the Air Force, he learned that the new nation of Israel was about to be attacked by its Arab neighbors. Though George felt the Jewish State had no chance of survival against such insurmountable odds, he knew he had to help. He signed up as a Machalnik (volunteer) and was assigned to an air base in Czechoslovakia where he helped train Israel's first fighter pilots. Within a year they owned the skies over their new nation.

FAA Aviation News

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book FAA Aviation News written by and published by . This book was released on 1969-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flying Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1948-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land

Author : Ralph Connor
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land written by Ralph Connor and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land" by Ralph Connor. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

A Pilot's Ups and Downs

Author : Alasdair Sutherland
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781035819782
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book A Pilot's Ups and Downs written by Alasdair Sutherland and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every 1,000 people who applied to be airline pilots in BEA/BOAC back in the day, about four made it. The other 996, plus their wives, parents, and children, might wonder how their lives could have turned out, so here is the story of one of the four. Besides, the passengers who sit behind that locked door and trust us with their lives must wonder, "What goes on up there, and how does it affect their lives and families?" My education included the University Air Squadron, then learning to fly at the College sponsored by British Airways. There is a chapter of general information on aviation, then most of the book is an account of my experiences, whether dramatic, disappointing, exciting, or amusing, during my varied career in British Airways. Some incidents occur within the cockpit, others in social interaction outside, and a few come from pilot folklore. I also describe visits to sights around the world, an aspect that draws people to aviation as a career, and interests everyone. I have added one professional pilot's opinion on aviation topics in the news, the mysterious Malaysian disappearance, and the Alpine tragedy, and finish with my lifelong interest in designing model aircraft.

Flying Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1948-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recreational Pilot and Private Pilot Written Test Book

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recreational Pilot and Private Pilot Written Test Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Heart of a Pilot

Author : Thomas Lee Bangart
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450061656
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of a Pilot written by Thomas Lee Bangart and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was during a time when his family was financially down that the author discovered his passion. In a county fair where it was even hard for him and his mother to experience a single ride, he found himself fascinated with only one amusement—the old Curtis Robin airplane. Luckily for him, a family friend gave him the chance to ride it himself. As soon as the engine roared to life and the airplane lurched forward across the rough pasture and into the sky where he could see the beautiful view from above, he knew right then that he wanted to go flying for the rest of his life. Now in his late seventies, Bangart relives his wonderful journey through the skies and life to bring inspiration to others. In this autobiography, he reminisces his adventures as a pilot during the Great Depression, treating the reader with an inside look at growing to manhood during the first half of the twentieth century. His descriptions of the early days of Alaska bush flying, and the trials and hazards of the early airline flying are given in great detail. A person does not have to be a pilot or airplane enthusiast to enjoy this book. It covers such things as driving the Alaska-Canadian highway both in summer and winter weather, making a home in Alaska with a new bride, how government has brought many changes in our lives, and many insights into life itself. If you have been a passenger on an airliner during these early years, this book will give you a perception to what went on behind the closed cabin door where the pilots were secluded.

Nail 48

Author : Phil Maywald
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Nail 48 written by Phil Maywald and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lt. Colonel Phillip Maywald, USAF (Ret.), graduated from The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in the Class of 1963. The class of 63 was the first full size class, the first to go all four years at the permanent USAFA site in Colorado Springs, and the only class that had President Kennedy as its graduation speaker. Its future was entwined with the Viet Nam War even though that was not known until after its graduation. Eighteen of the class were killed in action, two were long term POWs and others were killed in training. The majority served in SEA. Phil Maywald considers himself an average member of the Class. He was average as a cadet and had an average career. While many, if not all of his classmates and other USAFA graduates, have had opportunities to to do extraordinary things and responded in ways that bring honor to themselves and the USAF there are only sixteen who are recognized in the USAFA Plaza of Heroes. Phil is one of those. (See Photos) He was awarded the Air Force Cross for combat actions as a forward air controller during the Viet Nam war, the highest award the Air Force can give, the only higher award being the Congressional Medal of Honor. This is the account of the combat actions and the UFAFA background that shaped him and led to that award. It was written to honor the class of 63.