Helicopters and Humans
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 5.50
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
04.06.2017
Verlag
Francis MeyrickSeitenzahl
300 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
4624 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781370151622
When you fly all over the world, logging over 12,500 flight hours during several decades as a 'chopper jockey', you meet all kinds of people. As Francis 'Moggy' Meyrick puts it: 'Some mothers do have 'em!' He has interacted with the fascinating cultural mixture aboard Taiwanese Tuna fishing boats and with the burly American crew of oil and gas rigs off the coast of Africa and in the Gulf of Mexico. He has flown patrol for cops in Mohave County, Arizona, chatted with good mechanics and been talked down to by certain EMS nurses. He has known leaders and fellow pilots who deserved his respect and others who seemed reminiscent of the Daleks ('Ex-ter-mi-nate!'). In these 44 short stories, 'Moggy' portrays the mischief, the many misunderstandings and the mishaps he has encountered. He describes the sheer joy of flying, mentally thanking the multi-million-dollar individuals and corporations 'who pay him to play with their expensive toys'. And he honestly describes his own mistakes and muddles, right from his very first introductory lessons in 'the art of rotary flight'. But the main theme is 'humans', as seen through the eyes of one thoughtful, gregarious Irish helicopter pilot. This book is written for everybody, not just chopper jockeys. A brief section 'How pilots fly helicopters' explains the basics, as an aid to arm-chair enthusiasts.
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