Aviation > Adventures

One boy and his airplane. Chip is a sixteen year old boy with a Piper J-3 Cub seaplane named Li'l Windy. He knows how to fly. He's been flying with his father for years. But now he is alone and the sky becomes his classroom. Though he does survive, every flight is an adventure, a great learning experience, and excellent preparation for the boy who wants to become a professional pilot. In fact you may wonder why commercial airline pilots are not required to have this kind of background. It's fun, but it's learning the hard way, discovering things as tangible as aerodynamics and as deep as how to live an entire lifetime. If you have a young person who's not all tha ...

Flying Escapades- tragic, hair-raising and hilarious flying stories. This book highlights flying experiences that the author has had and those of others that he met on his journey. The stories range from an aircraft getting blown off the runway in North Carolina to a Learjet descending through a snow storm in northern British Columbia, Canada with a flight crew ignoring the minimum altitude required. Another story deals with a tragic crash on a stormy night with a Learjet 35 doing a Medivac mission to an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. At night and in bad weather, why did the pilots make a simple mistake that cost them and the three nurses on board their lives? Th ...