Dangerous Flights

Author : Kerry McCauley
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ISBN 13 : 9781735339047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ferry Pilot written by Kerry McCauley and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerry McCauley has the job most pilots only dream of; delivering small used aircraft to locations around the world. In his 30 years an international ferry pilot, Kerry has delivered almost every kind of airplane you can name to almost every location you can think of. In his long career Kerry battled fuel system malfunctions over the Atlantic, a total electrical failure at night over the Sahara, getting lost over Africa and being struck by lightning off the coast of Portugal. Kerry's almost insatiable, reckless quest for danger and adventure also led to putting international smuggler and bank robber on his resume. Kerry found the answer to the question "what could possibly go wrong?" time and time again. But his skill, ingenuity and luck were what allowed him to survive the countless mishaps, catastrophes and close calls including a nearly fatal plane crash. While "Ferry Pilot" is an account of one man's crazy thirst for thrills and adventure, his coming to grips with the dangerous nature of his career and just how much he wants to test the depth of his luck bag. It's also a portrait of the perseverance and bravery of a devoted family man who lost many close friends and his first wife to the dangerous skies.

Author : Kerry McCauley
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ISBN 13 : 9781735339054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Flights written by Kerry McCauley and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerry McCauley takes readers inside the perilous business of international aircraft delivery. It's an occupation so dangerous and exciting that the Discovery Channel filmed a series about it. This behind the scenes look at the making of a reality TV show about ferry pilots will have you both on the edge of your seat and laughing out loud. Join Kerry and his co-pilots as they struggle to meet the demands of filming and acting on a television show while at the same time flying over some of the most vast and dangerous areas of the planet. Their amazing trips take them across the frozen Siberian Arctic to the blistering Arabian Desert, and the dense Amazon Jungle to the deadly North Atlantic. Flying planes that were never meant to cover such long and desolate routes, Kerry and his fellow pilots push their luck and their endurance to the limits. Each trip is an epic adventure filled with non-stop challenges, such as unexpected weather emergencies, major aircraft malfunctions, bureaucratic nightmares and killer storms. Along the way the pilots of Dangerous Flights survive dozens of close calls, celebrate amazing victories and suffer a tragic loss. Ride along in the cockpit as Kerry and his crew circle the globe, land on every continent except Antarctica, and have some of the most amazing adventures imaginable.

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Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Data Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Army Air Forces
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confidential Documents written by United States. Army Air Forces and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496833651
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flights from Fassberg written by Wolfgang W. E. Samuel and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), interweaves his story and that of his family with the larger history of World War II and the postwar world through a moving recollection and exploration of Fassberg, a small town in Germany few have heard of and fewer remember. Created in 1933 by the Hitler regime to train German aircrews, Fassberg hosted Samuel’s father in 1944–45 as an officer in the German air force. As fate and Germany's collapse chased young Wolfgang, Fassberg later became his home as a postwar refugee, frightened, traumatized, hungry, and cold. Built for war, Fassberg made its next mark as a harbinger of the new Cold War, serving as one of the operating bases for Allied aircraft during the Berlin Airlift in 1948. With the end of the Berlin Crisis, the airbase and town faced a dire future. When the Royal Air Force declared the airbase surplus to its needs, it also signed the place's death warrant, yet increasing Cold War tensions salvaged both base and town. Fassberg transformed again, this time into a forward operating base for NATO aircraft, including a fighter flown by Samuel's son. Both personal revelation and world history, replete with tales from pilots, mechanics, and all those whose lives intersected there, Flights from Fassberg provides context to the Berlin Airlift and its strategic impact, the development of NATO, and the establishment of the West German nation. The little town built for war survived to serve as a refuge for a lasting peace.

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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fly written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Samson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762795433
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Tiger written by Jack Samson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth will be the subject of a huge upcoming film from IMAX and director John Woo. The film is scheduled to start shooting in spring 2011 with no firm release date stated yet. The role of Chenault in the film is likely to be the role of a lifetime for a huge star. When a sickly, half-deaf, forty-seven-year-old retired U.S. Army Air Corps Captain went to China in 1937 to survey Chiang Kai-shek’s Chinese Air Force, little did the world know this would be the man to stem the Japanese tide in the Far East. Almost every military expert predicted his handful of pilots of the American Volunteer Group would not last three weeks. Yet in seven months in 1942, the AVG, fighting a rear-guard action over Burma, China, Thailand, and French Indonesia, destroyed a confirmed 199 planes, with another 153 “probables” as well. They did this losing only four pilots and twelve P-40s in air combat and sixty-one on the ground. In this definitive biography of General Claire Chennault, veteran reporter Jack Samson offers a rare and fascinating inside look at this legendary man behind the Flying Tigers. Unlike Eisenhower and MacArthur, Chennault was no saintly military leader. He was a chain-smoking, bourbon-drinking, womanizing man. He was the kind of leader his men knew could and did fly better than they--in any kind of plane. But first and last, he was a fighter--a tough, single-minded warrior who was never confused by who the enemy was in Asia, regardless of what the State Department thought. Following Chennault from this command of the Fourteenth U.S. Army Air Force during World War II to the part of his life that is not well known--the intriguing postwar years in China and Formosa, where his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) became the scourge of the Red Chinese--The Flying Tiger is an extraordinary portrait of one of America’s great military commanders.

Author : Thomas Corfield
Publisher : Scribl
ISBN 13 : 1633480429
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alchemists Of Vra written by Thomas Corfield and published by Scribl. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consider a world inhabited with only cats and dogs: a society recognizable as our own, but with its eccentricities being the norm, rather than the exception. A world where the charm of Kenneth Grahame’s Wind In the Willows meets the exotic world of Ian Fleming’s Bond. A world where fluffy just got dangerous. These are the Velvet Paw of Asquith Novels, also known as the Dooven Books: welcome to the genre of New Fable. When Oscar stumbles across an arrogant bard named the Dodosette and the beautiful cat Vaasi-Vee, he unearths a plot to plunge the world into darkness. After some begging, a lot of snow and an industrial-sized vat of soup, the three animals argue all the way to the infamous land of Vra to do something about it. They did not, however, anticipate having to fight invisible Rottweilers, smash kitchens to pieces, lick frozen cars or fund taxi drivers’ sisters' eye operations. Although, for Oscar Teabag-Dooven, such things are not unusual.

Author : Jane Shuter
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 9781410905796
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying High written by Jane Shuter and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the use and development of air travel from Leonardo da Vinci's 1485 design for an airplane to space travel in the present.

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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Flying Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1939-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: