Adventures in Flying

Adventures in Flying is a highly unconventional aviation book. It focuses on unusual, and sometimes almost unbelievable, human interest stories. These tales will intrique non aviation-oriented people as much as pilots. Within the pages of this book are tales of breathtaking suspense, heartwarming emotion, nostalgia, and humor. Another unusual aspect of this book is the fact that many of the outstanding achievements recounted were flights by average people like the guy next door, rather than individuals who have made headlines. The book transcends the world of flying. There are tales which recount extraordinary determination, amazing displays of courage, extradinary compassion, imagination, and humor. There are examples of achieving the impossible dream, overcoming severe physical handicaps and building a multimillion dollar worldwide business from scratch which started with an investment of $1,000 in an used airplane. Among the chapters in this book is one on Mercy Flights, in which volunteer pilots provide free transportation for transplant patients and other people too ill to travel on public transportation. There is a chapter on Blacks in Aviation, including interviews with Tuskegee Airmen and another on achievements on Women in Aviation and one on handicapped pilots. Included in the pages of the book is aviation history, stories of some of aviation's greatest heroes, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Jimmy Doolittle. There are some untold stories, including one which reveals a little known fact about the fate of legendary football coach , Knute Rockne, which the teller of the tale believed had never been printed.

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