A Pilot's Memoirs-From the Ground Up

Author: Nicholas Gravino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615240992
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This autobiographical manuscript is the story of the authors life and love for the fascination and sought after world of Aviation that began at the New York World's Fair of 1939 and continued for some 68 years and is still on-going today. This story is unique, in that, it will take you on an exsciting excursion through the super sensitive issues in todays World of Aviation and will take you to places where no other Pilot/Author dares to tread. It will take you down memory lane and behind the locked doors of the Cockpit known as the Inner Santham of No Mans Land. It will provide you with all the answers to questions that you were afraid to ask and is an absolute a page turner

Skyfaring

Author: Mark Vanhoenacker
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351828
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
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.

One Foot on the Ground

Author: Paul Roxin
Publisher: Atc Press
ISBN: 9780966331318
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A Pilot's Journey

Author: George Norfleet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312

Book Description
The excellence of the Tuskegee Airmen as a group during World War II is undisputed. Theirs is an amazing story of leadership, unbounded; of future generals, U.S. Cabinet members, mayors of major cities, judges, college presidents, doctors -- out of a group of less than 1,000 men. A Pilot's Journey examines the life of a Tuskegee Airman, Curtis Robinson, up close before he arrived at Tuskegee and after he climbed out of the cockpit at the end of World War II and continued to strive and enjoy success as well as profound losses yet never ceased, "believing in God and myself to guide me in the right direction." And not only does he have a remarkable and fascinating history that he tells, but he is the descendant of a family of high achievers that he traces back to the 1730s, with five previous generations on American soil. His family's story depicts, without rancor or judgment, shameful aspects of American history and the amazing struggles and achievements of one African-American family. Curtis Robinson is unique, accomplished, and of an indomitable spirit and magnaminous nature, whose "Love thy neighbor and do unto others as you will have them do unto you" approach to life is rooted in his belief that, "If you live by those rules you're bound to have a good life."--Jacket.

One Foot on the Ground

Author: Paul Roxin
Publisher: Atc Press
ISBN: 9780966331301
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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From the Ground Up

Author: Viola MacMillan
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1550224573
Category : Businesswomen
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Viola MacMillan was a mining dynamo, a legend in the testosterone-driven, wheeling-dealing venture that is Canadian mining. In this rags-to-riches autobiography, MacMillan offers a passionate account of her life in the bush, her rise to fame, and the setbacks she endured along the way. To put the story in context, Virginia Heffernan provides a snapshot of the Canadian mining industry during MacMillan’s heyday, including the events that led to her jail sentence and eventual pardon.

Fighter Pilot

Author: Christina Olds
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 142992909X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Fighter Pilot is the memoir of legendary ace American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force, Robin Olds. Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them. Proving he wasn't a WWII retread, he led the wing with aggressiveness, scoring another four confirmed kills, becoming a rare triple ace. Olds, who retired a brigadier general and died in 2007, was a unique individual whose personal story presents one of the most eagerly anticipated military books in recent memory. Please note: This ebook edition does not include the photo insert from the print edition.

Four Years Above the Earth

Author: Field Morey
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662422997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
When his student and close friend Oliver Smithies accepted his Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, he singled Field out as someone who was important in his life, saying, "Field Morey, a distinguished flight instructor taught me to fly...but he taught me something more important than flying. He taught me that it is possible to overcome fear with knowledge." During his four years above the earth, throughout fifty-eight years of teaching more than one thousand pilots, Field overcame fear, faced weather, set records, had abundant fun...and as he puts it, "learned from my students...probably more than I taught." Since he grew up in an aviation family, it was expected that Field would fly. A contemporary of Charles Lindbergh, his father, Howard, taught him about airplanes, about operating an airport, about character and responsibility, while Lindbergh inspired him to imagine more and aim higher. Twice the FAA named Field Flight Instructor of the Year. Later, his name was added to the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. Along with Oliver Smithies, the pair set a world record, and when the Aviation Hall of Fame inducted him, it was a career highlight. In this memoir, Field recounts his coming-of-age in aviation and relates stories of memorable flights and remarkable adventures. With an awareness that his story is also his students' story, he recognizes the privilege of having been born when he was and pays tribute to his father, Howard Morey, an exemplary aviation pioneer, by thanking him every day for guiding him in the right direction. Yes, this is a story about flying, but it is much more. It is a study of how excellence evolves, not always in a linear progression, but with passion and vision.

From the Ground Up

Author: Talmadge E. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985810306
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 406

Book Description
"Talmage E. "Tom/Tal" Miller learned to fly in the Enlisted Reserve under the CPT program, where he soloed in 1942. He graduated from the Central Instructors School at Randolph Field and was assigned to Tex Rankin's Primary Flight Training School. He later got into cadet pilot training at Santa Ana, California. He got his wings in Douglas, Arizona, and was assigned to "bombing through overcast" school flying North American B-25s. When the war ended, he landed an instructor job at Sky Ranch Airport before being hired by Combs Aircraft, a Beechcraft dealer, to sell airplanes. He flew everything from the Bonanza to the King Air 200 turboprop and won many awards for aircraft sales. He later founded his own airplane sales company with Bill Haines, chief pilot for the Dillon Company. They sold many kinds of airplanes, from DC-3s to North American Sabreliner models 40 and 60 in many parts of the world. His book describes encounters with Olive Ann Beechcraft, Roscoe Turner, Paul Mantz, Frank Tallman, Elrey Jeppesen and many other well-known names in the aviation industry"--Amazon.com.

Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot

Author: Helmut Mahlke
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473822378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
“Well-written and holds the reader’s attention . . . an engaging book and a rare personal view of flying one of the most iconic aircraft of WWII.” —Firetrench After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser Köln and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer during the Spanish Civil War, Helmut Mahlke describes his flying training as a Stuka pilot. The author’s naval dive-bomber Gruppe was incorporated into the Luftwaffe upon the outbreak of war. What follows is a fascinating Stuka pilot’s-eye view of some of the most famous and historic battles and campaigns of the early war years: the Blitzkrieg in France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, the bombing of Malta, North Africa, Tobruk, and Crete, and, finally, the invasion of the Soviet Union. Mahlke also takes the reader behind the scenes into the day-to-day life of his unit and brings the members of his Gruppe to vivid life, describing their off-duty antics and mourning their losses in action. The story ends when he himself is shot down in flames by a Soviet fighter and is severely burned. He was to spend the remainder of the war in various staff appointments. “An engaging, engrossing and exceptionally informative book. A worthy addition to any military enthusiast’s library and is unhesitatingly and heartily recommended.” —Aviation History