Download or read book Rescue Chopper written by Ruth Hallman and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven episodes featuring a Coast Guard search and rescue team which, despite a certain amount of internal rivalry, manages to effect some dangerous helicopter rescues.
Download or read book Helicopter Rescue written by Ken Wishaw and published by Ripplemakers Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of Australia's first full-time helicopter doctor. Describes his passion for flying, his crew membership of the Surf Life Saving Association rescue helicopter, and his role in developing the operations of CareFlight. Tells of the many helicopter rescues he has made. Includes full-colour photos. Foreword by Dr Fran Smith. Author is a doctor with specialist qualification in anaesthesia, who teaches advanced resuscitation and crisis management skills to other anaesthetists.
Download or read book Support the Last Resort written by Jason R. Fortenbacher and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Jason Fortenbacher has captured the intense training that the Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team undergoes year round through his inspirational pictures. "Support the Last Resort" tells the behind the scenes story of what it takes to keep a world class helicopter rescue team proficient on the complexity of high altitude mountain rescue. The net proceeds of this book go directly to the Team in order to enable their life-saving mission.
Download or read book Rescue Pilot written by Dan McKinnon and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval aviator Dan McKinnon recounts the dramatic at-sea rescues conducted during his anything-but-peaceful peacetime service in the US Navy from 1956-1959. Rescue accounts include an ejected test-pilot; a crew member washed overboard their air carrier flight deck; and an amazing mission in the Red China Seas. The long shipboard assignments common to Navy history of time period are also portrayed along with details of flight training and survival training.
Download or read book The Longest Rescue written by Glenn Robins and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 20 September 1965 Airman First Class Bill Robinson, a helicopter mechanic, was shot down in North Vietnam. He spent more than seven years in multiple North Vietnamese prison camps. For his actions in Vietnam Robinson received the Air Cross, one of only twenty-three enlisted men ever to earn that honour, and no enlisted man in American military history has been held longer as a prisoner of war. The book presents a detailed account of Robinson's early years and devotes substantial coverage to his postrelease life.
Download or read book Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army Research and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives They Saved written by L. Douglas Keeney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11…by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or told. It includes hundreds of oral histories and many photographs of this high drama, set against the terrifying backdrop of the day when the Earth stood still, every airport in the U.S. was closed down, and Manhattan was seized by gridlock. , For perspective, the boatlift that saved Britain’s expeditionary force from the beaches of Dunkirk removed approximately the same number of people: 300,000. ,
Download or read book Tragic Mountains written by Jane Hamilton-Merritt and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.
Download or read book Choppers written by Susan Goodman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helicopters are amazing machines that go places and do things that other vehicles cannot. Readers will love learning about the many daring jobs and rescues they undertake every day. Chock full of exciting color photographs, too! Susan E. Goodman is a writer and journalist. Michael Doolittle is a photographer and photo editor. Together they have collaborated on many children’s books, including beginning readers and the Ultimate Field Trip series. Susan lives in Boston; Michael lives in Connecticut.
Download or read book Snake Rolling in Hot written by Bud Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Snake, Rolling in Hot” is a historical novel about a squadron of Marine Corps helicopter pilots and their crews. It is a true accounting about flying and fighting in Vietnam as well as the training of aircrews before they were sent to Southeast Asia. The combat operations take place in I-Corps in Vietnam and from the decks of navy carriers in the South China Sea. The story also takes a look at some of the wild R & R escapades Marines experienced in Hong Kong, Bangkok, the Philippines and other hot spots around the world. There is also a provocative look at the political scene in the U.S. during the war in Vietnam and how it affected several of the characters in the book in a ways they never thought possible when the war began. With dialog that snaps with electricity and realism, “Snake, Rolling in Hot” takes the reader into the cockpits of Marine choppers during action packed missions flown against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. After reading this book, no one will ever feel the same about helicopters and their crews again.
Download or read book Moon Shadow written by Reggie Ridgway and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a new and potentially planet-killing contagion is discovered, Moon Shadow, an isolated resort town located in Alaska's primitive and rugged interior, becomes the focus of a military-style incursion. Major Pepper, who is in charge of the operation, has the local residents rounded up into a razor-wire inclosed quarantine. Because of the danger of a potential pandemic, they are to be transferred to a more prison-like underground quarantine. Two of the residents, Trevor, a young physician, and Jodie, an Earth Project environmentalist, are not having any of this obvious violation of human rights. They escape and are hunted down like fugitives with the full arsenal of the US Army at the Major's disposal. The two have to use a zip line to escape a three-story-burning lodge. When they seek refuge in an abandoned gold mine, the entrance is caved in by a missile strike. The two fugitives do manage to find a way out of the mine and try to make their way back to civilization and safety by floating down river on a rubber raft. While fighting for their lives against nature and the deranged Major Pepper, the two begin to fall in love with each other. They discover they have more to live for than exposing the Major for his treachery and his murder of innocent civilians for the greater good.
Download or read book Tiny LEGO Wonders written by Mattia Zamboni and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to build 40 miniature models of race cars, airplanes, ships, trains, and more. These fun, compact designs will inspire you to get creative with as few as nine LEGO® pieces. Imagine what you can build with just a handful of LEGO bricks—almost anything! In Tiny LEGO Wonders, you'll create miniscale models of real vehicles like: –A space shuttle –Jets, planes, and helicopters –Flatbed trucks and cement mixers –France’s high-speed TGV train –F1 racecars –Muscle cars –Cargo, cruise, wooden ships, and more! Let your creativity run wild!
Download or read book Genesis written by Joseph Youngblood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two lovers from different races in pre-history India meet in a time of danger and fall in love. They share a life of adventure but eventually die. Though separated by death, their spirits live again at various times throughout history, though never together. When they are finally reunited, it is a time of disaster for humankind. Humanity has advanced far enough to destroy itself, and it does. A nuclear accident triggers a global conflict between superpowers that destroys humanity along with almost all life on Earth. The lovers, reincarnated in the twenty-first century are selected to be placed into suspended animation and sent on a journey through space and time. Their task is to return to Earth in a distant future and reestablish life on the planet. They accomplish this with the help of a converted Space Schuttle, a Space Station and microcomputers implanted in their bodies to enhances their physical and mental abilities and prolong their lives. To succeed in their mission, they must find ways to overcome loneliness, hardship, and danger from radiation mutated decedents of humankind who are now the dominate species on Earth.
Download or read book Air Force Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warriors at 500 Knots written by Robert F. Kirk and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-04-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the allies for victory to have a chance. It was the F-4 and its pilots that made that possible. The author, a Phantom pilot himself, details intense stories of undaunted and valiant American pilots with their legendary fierce Phantom. These are personal stories of intrepid courage and self-sacrifice to get the mission done - whatever the cost. Fierce, unflinching battles to save friendlies and destroy a ruthless enemy are all recorded 40 years later. True tales of war at 500 knots!
Download or read book Year of the Wolf written by Steven Venton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Wilkes, a computer genius and program inventor who has worked for the Pentagon for ten years, is returning to upstate New York for reconciliation with his parents. But on the way, he is attacked by a dangerous predator. After recovering from his injuries, he meets Susan Morehouse, assistant supervisor of the Department of Indigenous Animal Control (DIAC). Both of them are searching for answers to the same question: Who is behind the release of wolves into the Adirondack Park, and why? Jonathan and Susan, along with three othersone the mother of a wolf-attack victimjoin together to find the answers. Their investigation leads them all the way to the New York governors mansion and a secret file room. Leaving armed with new information, the team must stay alive long enough to apprehend the powerful people involved and make the Adirondack Park safe again. The rampaging wolf packs have overpopulated the area, invading human territory and endangering nearly a million people. And these predators are not normal. They were chemically altered for maximum aggression. While people in the Adirondack Mountains are struggling to survive the dangers coming from the woods, the main characters must follow-through with a daring plan. The reader finds himself in the middle of an action-packed plot, with people being hunted by wolves, a network of criminals working together, and a prize worth billions of dollars! The reader will find main characters involved in a rescue operation, venturing the halls of the New York state legislature, and being pursued by murderous thugs in a terrifying high-speed car chase. Year of the Wolf is a tale of human greed, unspeakable cruelty, and great heroism in the face of danger. It even has an unforgettable double ending!
