Songs From A Distant Cockpit

John J Schulz

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

1492962902 / 9781492962908

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A Compelling Read or the Perfect Gift. What it's like to fly combat jets down between the trees. Whether you have ever flown a jet, or just wished to do so, and whether you served in Vietnam or just read about it, you will be riveted by this fast-paced and vivid account in prose and poetry that tells the story of a special breed of men. These were the hand-picked few who led death-defying lives as F-100 Super Sabre pilots. Songs tells the story of the Hun Drivers in war and peace, who flew low and fast between the trees with troops under fire day or night, or spent weeks away from home and family on nuclear alert, hoping that the red phone that signaled WW III would never ring. Their plane was called The Widow Maker for good reason, as you soon learn. Songs From A Distant Cockpit puts you in the cockpit and in among these single-seat, single-engine fighter pilots as they trained in the most dangerous plane ever built. It brings you along as they learned how to fly it, and how to survive in it, and the sudden risks and terrors that they faced often as they flew it. If you've ever wondered What it's like to fly a close-air-support fighter bombers in combat in Vietnam, or on other missions that pushed the ragged edges of the flight envelope, with Death an all-too-frequent wingman, then you'll have a vivid understanding when you read Songs. This highly acclaimed book uses on-the-scene, at-the-time prose and poetry in a blend said by historians to be unique in books about combat in its ability to capture the feelings and experiences shared by those who took pride in their ability to fly the Hun. These men were few in number, because, with rare exception, only top pilots could become F-100 Super Sabre pilots. Many were the sights they saw, the things they felt, and the terrors that visited so suddenly, when Death came calling-but left again as suddenly, without a customer. What they, and the author, have most in common to this day is that they all enjoyed their Songs in distant cockpits, high above, or down so low, so fast, so far away, that only God could find them. Men and women from all walks of life are saying, I couldn't put it down, and some add that parts of it brought them to tears. So, satisfy your yearnings to fly because now it's time for YOU to get in that fighter cockpit and go flying through the bullets and down between the trees.…

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Titre
Songs From A Distant Cockpit
Auteur
John J Schulz
Éditeur
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Année de publication
2013
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1492962902
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781492962908

World of Books (was SecondSale)

Montgomery, IL, Etats-Unis

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