How I Survived Flying in the Good Old Days: Stories of Men, Flying Machines, and What I Learned From Them - Couverture souple

Jones Sr., Donald Gene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1519294646 ISBN 13 : 9781519294647

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The year was 1947. For most Americans, the challenges of World War II lay safely behind them. But for Don Jones, a young man from Michigan, 1947 was the year he took his first step toward achieving his childhood dream of becoming a pilot. He became an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps. A year later he graduated as a Second Lieutenant and a pilot in the newly founded United States Air Force. Flying in those days was primitive by today’s standards. At first, the aircraft he flew were tired, rundown, hand-me-downs from the war, with minimal navigation equipment, and even less navigational aids available on the ground to guide them. As the author recalls, young pilots were often left to their own devices flying solo while learning the basics of flying, or as he likes to call it “learning by trial and terror”. But over the years, as the sophistication of the aircraft he flew increased, so did his skills and abilities. So much so, that near the end of his Air Force career, he flew a combat tour in Vietnam in the F-100 Super Sabre, a supersonic single engine jet fighter. Part memoir and part survival guide for young pilots, this fascinating and eminently readable book is rich with historical photographs and is a must read for aviation enthusiasts, aviation historians, and more importantly, our next generation of young pilots.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Don Jones was born on September 10, 1926, in Sturgis, Michigan, and attended high school in Union City and Berrien Springs, Michigan. He began his military career when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps Reserve in 1943, and attended pre-Aviation Cadet college training at Michigan Tech University. In the Vietnam conflict he served as an F-100 pilot and staff officer with the 37th Tactical Fighter Wing at Phu Cat AB, South Vietnam, from May 1967 to April 1968. During this time he commanded the Misty FACs, a then classified organization whose mission was to suppress the movement of trucks and supplies along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and prevent deployment of Surface to Air Missiles in North Vietnam and Laos. After his retirement from the Air Force, he flew as a charter pilot and with the Civil Air Patrol from 1976 to 2011. He has accumulated over 16,300 flying hours in 65 types of military and civilian aircraft during his flying career.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1519294646
• ISBN 13: 9781519294647
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
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