Chinook!: The Special Forces Flight in War and Peace - Couverture rigide

McMullon, David; Eggar, Robin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684840170 ISBN 13 : 9780684840178

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

An account of the author's career with the SFF (Special Forces Flight), the helicopter equivalent of the SAS. McMullon served for eight years with a Chinook squadron, spending over 300 hours at the controls. He gives a detailed analysis of how a Chinook works and what can go wrong. Includes 20 pages of photographs.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

David McMullon has spent 2000 hours flying Chinook helicopters and it's no easy task - 100ft long with a blade that's over 3ft wide, it takes a team of four to fly and has the potential to carry 120 men. Even after rigorous training, accidents happen. David McMullon has lost 15 of his friends in helicopter crashes - a mistake below one hundred feet can turn a Chinook from a flying machine into a falling rock in the blink of an eye. McMullon's experiences include actual war time encounters with SAM missiles in the Gulf War and in Northern Ireland. And it was McMullon's task to fly up to Scotland on December 21 1988. What he and his team found was the harrowing debris of a passenger jet over Lockerbie and chaos on the ground.

Biographie de l'auteur

David McMullon now works as a commercial airline pilot, a boyhood dream, after leaving the RAF. He is happily married with three sons but is pursuing compensation from the RAF over the effects of Gulf War Syndrome which he believes led to the loss of his baby daughter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684840170
• ISBN 13: 9780684840178
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible