Aviation at the Edge

Author: John Flexman
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
ISBN: 1909020354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Three thousand feet above the Zambian bush, the DHC2 Beaver had only ten minutes' fuel remaining. Night was drawing in; ground features were indiscernible. I could not raise anyone on the radio. Would this be the end? John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy of eight. At sixteen he joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, getting his 'wings' in 1961 at the age of 18. From there on he never looked back. His flying career took him around the world, from the Far East to Africa and back again. John came within seconds of disaster on several occasions and often encountered tragedy, losing several friends and colleagues in flying accidents. During his years as a private pilot in Africa he flew the dictator Idi Amin several times, while on the ground he was able to witness the barbaric results of the dictator's regime. He went on to fly an assortment of prominent businessmen, politicians and pop stars, from Norman Tebbitt to Phil Collins and Paul McCartney. John finally retired at 60, having survived a 42-year career spanning 17,800 flying hours. Aviation at the Edge is his story.

Aviation at the Edge

Author: John Flexman
Publisher: Memoirs Publishing
ISBN: 1909020370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Flying the Edge

Author: Brian McAllister
Publisher: Airlife Publishing
ISBN: 9781853108655
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Designed to help pilots at all levels of experience, this book concentrates on the full utilization of an aircraft's safe flight parameters. In particular, it covers the topics of low-speed flight during take-off and landing, and essential performance problems encountered in normal flying.

Air War on the Edge

Author: Bill Norton
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Never before has there been a book published on the aircraft, units and exploits of the Israel Air Force in such depth. Interest in the IAF has always been high and seldom are its aircrew and aircraft out of the world's headlines. Previous books have failed to satisfy, either being sensationalist and low on factual content, or lacking in fundamental research. Bill Norton has trawled through thousands of documents, reports, and illustrations to produce a work that is staggering in its depth and knowledge. Those that think they know the IAF will find a wealth of new material and countless previously published 'facts' re-evaluated and righted. Detailed type-by-type coverage supported by a barrage of photographs of the IAF from the mixed bag of aircraft of its formative days, through the Suez Campaign, the Six Day War, Yom Kippur and on to be a sophisticated, well-equipped force, arguably the most experienced in the world. Included for the first time are all of the badges and heraldry of the units of the IAF, in full color.

Flying the Edge

Author: George C. Wilson
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781557509253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
This chronicle of a year spent with the 100th test-pilot class at the Naval Air Test Center in Patuxent River, Maryland, provides a look at the challenges and dangers facing naval test pilots in the 1990s.

Faster, Further, Higher

Author: Philip Jarrett
Publisher: Brassey's
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This volume concentrates on the key developments that prepared the way for the sophisticated civil and military aeroplanes of the 21st century. The first chapter makes a study of the way transonic and supersonic aerodynamics have shaped aeroplane design. The next essay explains how aerodynamic developments have led to technological developments in the cockpit to keep pace with the faster speeds and higher altitudes possible. The third major step in post-war aircraft technology came with the development of in-flight refuelling technologies, and the next chapter covers this. Succeeding chapters cover such technological developments as the use of new materials, the need to make jet engines more fuel efficient, developments in avionics and the problems of mass-producing high-technology aircraft. The Series Editor Philip Jarrett, is a freelance author, editor and consultant specialiszing in aviation. He has been editor of Aeroplane, the Royal Aeronautical Society's newspaper, assistant editor of Aeroplane Monthly, and production editor of Flight International.

Fantastic Flights

Author: Patrick O'Brien
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802788807
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
Describes seventeen twentieth-century historic flights and their pilots, from the Wright brothers to those of the space shuttles.

Flying on the Edge

Author: Bernie Haskell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473293802
Category : Aeronautics in agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 10

Book Description

Flying the Knife Edge

Author: Matt McLaughlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789881403605
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 410

Book Description
'Flying the Knife Edge' is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a bush pilot in remote Papua New Guinea in the 1990s. This critically acclaimed memoir chronicles New Zealander Matt McLaughlin's adventures on the knife edge of bush pilot ops in one of the world's most dangerous flying environments. A hair raising tal

Aviation at the Edge

Author: John Flexman
Publisher: Mereo Books
ISBN: 9781909874275
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398