Mayday
£14.95
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| Stories in 'Mayday' include: |
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The Galunggung incident |
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Martin Baker Let Down |
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Beyond the Limits |
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Flying Blind |
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Sunset for the Funjet |
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Independence Day |
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The Gimli Glider |
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Just a Minor Problem |
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Uncontrol, Uncontrol |
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Captain my Captain |
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No Parachutes |
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A Hard Day at the Office |
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A Shame to Take Their Money |
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The Atlantic Bus Stop |
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The Lonely Sea & The Sky |
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No Smoke Without Fire |
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The Trailblazers |
'Mayday' by Captain John Winslow...
features 17 amazing situations where aircrew have been able to nurse their crippled aircraft back to earth saving many lives in the process.
Written by a highly experienced military and heavy jet airline captain, this book is one that will greatly appeal to a wide spectrum of people interested in both aviation safety and what happens when fate intervenes in an otherwise normal flight.
You are literally there on the flight deck as the best qualities of human character work feverishly to overcome near insurmountable odds to grab victory from the jaws of defeat.
Chapters include the incredible story of a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot who nursed his fighter back aboard a carrier after being blinded by a bird strike. Of widebody Boeing and Airbus twinjets with hundreds of passengers on board which made successful deadstick engine-out landings at emergency airfields and many more where aircraft structural failure, including two of four engines falling off a 707, resulted in in-flight emergencies never conceived as possible by either aircrew or manufacturer.
'Mayday' is a truly remarkable book, the ultimate blood stirring action read but written in a down to earth manner that any grandmother would enjoy as much as her Boeing driving grandson!
Illustrated throughout.
Soft. 108 pages.
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