Download or read book The Worldwide Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot written by Bill Collier and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of flying helicopters all around the world in many different challenging and exotic settings.
Download or read book The Adventures of a Helicopter Pilot written by Bill Collier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a spellbinding, firsthand account of what it was like to pilot a Marine Corps H-34 helicopter in combat during "The Helicopter War" in Vietnam. As a brand-new United States Naval Aviator with a mere 187.5 hours of helicopter flight experience, Second Lieutenant Bill Collier had many exciting adventures. Many were just a bit too exciting, some were horrific and a few were terrifying. This is the true story of his experiences during his 13 months in the war. Bill watched friends die violently and stood many times eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe with Death itself. Each time, Death flinched.
Download or read book Klondike Playboy written by John Boden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vertical Ascent written by Charles O. Weir and published by Saanichton, B.C. : Hancock House. This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Born to Fly written by Bill Reid and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thrilling and entertaining lives of New Zealand’s helicopter dynasty. Three generations of Reids have flown helicopters. It’s in their blood. First there was John, a World War Two fighter pilot. After the war he used helicopters for things no one dreamed possible, carrying out 300 rescue missions and training a generation of Kiwi pilots along the way. Next there was John’s son Bill, who began flying in the early 1970s, during the dangerous venison recovery and live capture years. Over the course of his 40-year career, Bill flew helicopters for almost every kind of job you can imagine, from mountain rescue to Hollywood location scouting. He’s since restored an Avro Anson Mk I reconnaissance bomber, used in World War Two and the only airworthy craft of its type left in the world. And finally there’s Toby and his wife Rachael, whose helicopter business continues the legacy of 60 trailblazing years in helicopter aviation. Adventure, enterprise and courage ... Born to Fly tells you how the Reids have it in bucketloads.
Download or read book Heart of the Storm written by Col. Edward L. Fleming and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise for Heart of the Storm "Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fly the most versatile-and vulnerable-aircraft in the skies today."-John Glenn, former U.S. senator, astronaut, and bestselling author of John Glenn: A Memoir "To risk your life to save a stranger is the highest mark of a human being. Ed Fleming is such a man, and this book is a great read."-Dr. Jerri Nielsen, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ice Bound "Filled with suspense and emotion, Heart of the Storm reads like a thriller--but it's all true. Ed Fleming has led a dramatic and interesting life, and this book portrays it in living color."-Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Resolved and Absolute Rage
Download or read book Heart of the Storm written by Colonel Edward L. Fleming and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2004-04-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance praise for Heart of the Storm "Col. Ed Fleming tells a story of true heroism about the constant dangers faced by the pilots and crews who fly the most versatile-and vulnerable-aircraft in the skies today." -John Glenn, former U.S. senator, astronaut, and bestselling author of John Glenn: A Memoir "To risk your life to save a stranger is the highest mark of a human being. Ed Fleming is such a man, and this book is a great read." -Dr. Jerri Nielsen, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Ice Bound "Filled with suspense and emotion, Heart of the Storm reads like a thriller-but it's all true. Ed Fleming has led a dramatic and interesting life, and this book portrays it in living color." -Robert K. Tanenbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Resolved and Absolute Rage
Download or read book Apache Helicopter Pilots written by Antony Loveless and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These army pilots fly the most demanding helicopter in existence. Only 3% of existing army helicopter pilots qualify to fly it. Trainees have to learn to train their eyes to work independently of each other - while the right eye sees flight and weapons information in the helmet's monocle, the left eye is free to look outside the aircraft and scan for threats and other obstacles. This book lifts the lid on what life is like for these men and women; their training; the aircraft; the missions, and what it's actually like to be under fire while trying to protect soldiers on the ground.
Download or read book Rescue Pilot written by John Funnell and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daring adventures of a New Zealand search and rescue pilot. 'Somewhere, up ahead, a person is bleeding, but you have to put that out of your mind. Your job is negotiating with time and space. You have your clock, that person has their own, and in the end, whether the rate at which your clock is clicking matches theirs is out of your control.' John Funnell is one of New Zealand's longest serving search and rescue pilots. Often referred to as a 'search and rescue daredevil', John has just retired after an incredible 49 years flying search and rescue helicopters. He is perhaps best-known for the 800-kilometre mission to save a scientist attacked by a shark on the remote sub-Antarctic Campbell Island, when he set off into the night knowing the distance was twice that of the helicopter's normal fuel range. Clocking an incredible 19,000 hours of flight time, John is a hero to hundreds of victims all over New Zealand. What's more, he's a natural-born story-teller, and his stories in Rescue Pilot are utterly gripping.
Download or read book War Pilot written by Richard C. Kirkland and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decorated fighter pilot during World War II and one of America's first military helicopter pilots describes his action-packed experiences, from the first primitive Sikorsky, through flying medevac missions in Korea, to the sophisticated choppers used in Vietnam. Reprint.
Download or read book Spinning Tails written by Jan Hornung and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11-17 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the jungles of Vietnam to the heavens of Hawaii, across the world from New Zealand to America, and around-the-world flights, you'll fly with pilots, crew members, soldiers, nurses, and adventure seekers. Join Huey 091 in her journey from Vietnam to a backyard wedding decades later. Fly in the battles of wartime helicopter crews. Find out why some people dream of helicopter flight, while others have nightmares of the memories. Laugh at flight follies, admire heroes of the flight line, crash midair into another helicopter, and use in-flight emergency procedures when you hear, "You're on Fire!" More than thirty writers contributed stories, poems, and insights that represent myriad adventures, heartaches, ecstasies, horrors, and wonders that helicopters have to offer. Helicopter history, winged wisdom, and flight facts are scattered throughout the book. Strap in, hang on, and get ready for the flight of your life. "Tower, Spinning Tails ready for takeoff."
Download or read book A Wolf s Moon written by Hank Sands and published by Agio Publishing House. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the glorious mountains and plains of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Alberta and British Columbia, A Wolf's Moon is a gripping account of Hank Sands' adventures during his 18 years piloting helicopters. In Wood Buffalo National Park, Hank finds himself skinny dipping with a one-ton buffalo. Near Stewart, BC, he flies over an avalanche path with a bundle of dynamite fused to blow at any second, but it is lodged, unreachable, outside on the cargo rack. In an isolated Yukon tent camp, a mad Irishman threatens to chop everyone up with an axe. At another tent camp, a pack of wolves holds everyone in awe. High in the Bugaboos, Hank stares half-blind as explosive fuel drips from a damaged fuel tank onto the red-hot turbo charger of his crashed helicopter. Near Telegraph Creek, BC, a very large and legendary grizzly sends him running for his life. A raging forest fire threatening Fort Resolution, NWT, kindles a love story. In Port Alberni, BC, Hank flies into a 130,000-volt powerline. These are but a few from this collection of incredible yet true tales.
Download or read book Fifty Years Before the Rotor Mast written by Ben Van Etten and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a memoir of 50 years flying helicopters in a variety of situations. Included are rescues, combat operations, mountain and off-shore flying, medical evacuations, flight instruction and numerous flight missions that require pushing the flight envelope to the maximum. Highlighted are Ben Van Etten's five years as a flight captain with Air America, Inc. in Thailand and the unpublicized war in Laos. During that period the author describes in detail his interaction with other pilots and his "customers," primarily the CIA. The book also includes geographical and historical observations from a first person prospective. And a vivid description from inside the cockpit during many lifesaving missions. This book should tweak the interest of aviators and non-aviators alike.
Download or read book Up in the Air a Pilot s Journey written by Robert Fulton and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years of reinventing himself as a pilot is unfolded in this descriptive and adventurous book consisting of ten chapters. Each chapter relates a number of true stories revolving around the experiences of the author in a specific category of flight. For example; helicopter logging, combat, Arctic bush pilot, DC-9 major airline pilot, EMS helicopter pilot, and others. Life lessons involving taking action, facing difficult and almost impossible situations that must be overcome all translate into the elements we must all face as humans no matter what our role in the world. Relatable challenges that have parallels in our own lives can be found in this book. These examples help us understand the rewards of successful reinvention and the benefit of finding within ourselves the ability to persevere.
Download or read book Tales of a Helicopter Pilot written by Richard C. Kirkland and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Kirkland is legendary for his P-38 Lightning missions in the South Pacific theater during WWII. After the war, he realized the potential of Igor Sikorsky’s new flying machine, and he traded in his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. The nerve-racking chopper missions he has flown are the stuff of legend: scrambling to evacuate president Harry Truman after an unthinkable “code red one” alert comes over his red phone; bantering with the real “Hawkeye” at a MASH unit before flying into North Korea to rescue wounded soldiers. Equally riveting are his accounts of a medevac pilot in Vietnam who lands a ten ton CH-46 “Frog” in the jungle at night, with no lights, under fire, with only a soldier’s cigarette lighter for reference; and an aerial tour pilot who routinely pulls people out of the water above, below, and right before Niagara Falls.
Download or read book Catch the Sky written by Darryl J. Kimball and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darryl Kimball always wanted to fly. This is the story of how he accomplished his dream. It's the story of how a small town country boy found his way to San Diego, California, and eventually into the helicopter unit of one of the largest sheriff's departments in the country. In many ways it's a success story, a story of perseverance -- one that says when the odds seem to be stacked against you, or when your mind tells you that you're not smart enough or good enough, or tells you to quit and go home, you don't listen. You stick it out, you move forward . . . and you persevere. As a helicopter pilot with the elite air support unit of the San Diego Sheriff's Department, Darryl Kimball has hunted for missing children, extracted captured drugs and other contraband out of cramped locations, medevac'd injured hikers from valleys thick with boulders and brush, directed deputies during gun battles, and tracked carjackers as they tried to escape pursuing officers through heavy freeway traffic. Catch the Sky is the first in-depth look at the life of a police helicopter pilot. Kimball pulls no punches, unfolding his nail-biting personal story in enthralling detail. From death-defying rescues to stories both bizarre and humorous, Catch the Sky puts you inside the helicopter cockpit for a breathtaking ride you'll never forget.
Download or read book Rotor Trash a Pilots Tale written by W. F. Saathoff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rotor Trash is about the real life adventures of a helicopter pilot. With little formal education and a run-ins with the law, Bill still managed to fulfill his dreams of flying and traveling the world. This action packed novel will keep you guessing and wondering "where's Bill now?". At age 66, Bill is still actively flying helicopters in Alaska and continues to write about his adventures. "Never give up. Never!"
