The Greatest Flying Stories Ever Told; Nineteen Amazing Tales from The Sky

by Edited with an introduction by Lamar Underwood

• ISBN13: 9781585745128
• ISBN10: 158574512X
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

A diverse, inspiring, and exciting collection on the thrills of taking flight.

Author Biography

Lamar Underwood is a former Editor-in-Chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life magazines, and is presently Editorial Director of the Outdoor Magazines Group of Harris Publications in New York

Table of Contents

Frontispiece: High Flight	vii
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Introduction	ix
Lamar Underwood
Part One: Toward the Unknown	1	(78)
The Spirit of St. Louis	3	(14)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart and the Flight That Failed	17	(14)
Mary S. Lovell
West with the Night	31	(12)
Beryl Markham
The Sound Barrier	43	(14)
General Chuck Yeager
Leo Janos
Orbit	57	(22)
Tom Wolfe
Part Two: Pilots in Command	79	(88)
``Dooley''	81	(20)
Ernest K. Gann
Flight Of Passage	101	(16)
Rinker Buck
Approaches	117	(20)
Laurence Gonzales
Stranger to the Ground	137	(14)
Richard Bach
On Extended Wings	151	(16)
Diane Ackerman
Part Three: The Wings of War	167	(110)
Winter's Morning	169	(12)
Len Deighton
Piece Of Cake	181	(16)
Derek Robinson
Black Thursday: The Second Schweinfurt Attack, October 14, 1943	197	(32)
Brian D. O'Neill
Along The Yalu	229	(12)
James Salter
Carrier Qual	241	(32)
Douglas C. Waller
An Airman's Letter to His Mother	273	(4)
Anonymous
Part Four: Sound of Impact	277	(54)
Fire & Rain	279	(20)
Jerome Greer Chandler
Am I Alive?	299	(14)
Sandy Purl
Gregg Lewis
Tragedy and Escape	313	(18)
Ernest K. Gann
About The Editor	331	(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments	333