Aviation at the Edge: 42 Years of Comradeship, Tragedy and Adrenaline Fuelled Life in the Clouds [Audiobook] download free by John Flexman
- Listen audiobook: Aviation at the Edge: 42 Years of Comradeship, Tragedy and Adrenaline Fuelled Life in the Clouds
- Author: John Flexman
- Release date: 2012/6/19
- Publisher: MEMOIRS PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781909020351
- Rating: 8.66 of 10
- Votes: 529
- Review by: Daisy Ridenour
- Review rating: 8.59 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/20
- Duration: 3H45M5S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-05
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: ATRAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4, OPUS (compression TZO, RAR, ARJ, EML, BZ2, ZIP, AZW)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M12S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Three thousand feet above the Zambian bush, the DHC2 Beaver had only ten minutes' fuel remaining. Night was drawing in; ground features were indiscernible. I could not raise anyone on the radio. Would this be the end? John Flexman knew he wanted to be a pilot from the moment he saw an RAF flypast as a boy of eight. At sixteen he joined the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, getting his 'wings' in 1961 at the age of 18. From there on he never looked back. His flying career took him around the world, from the Far East to Africa and back again. John came within seconds of disaster on several occasions and often encountered tragedy, losing several friends and colleagues in flying accidents. During his years in Africa he flew the dictator Idi Amin several times, while on the ground he was able to witness the barbaric results of Amin's régime. He went on to fly an assortment of prominent businessmen, politicians and pop stars, from Norman Tebbitt and Rupert Murdoch to Phil Collins and Paul McCartney. John finally retired at 60, having narrowly survived a 42-year career spanning 17,800 flying hours. Aviation at the Edge is his story.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Aviation Skills / Piloting, True Stories Of Heroism, Endurance & Survival, Biography: General, Aircraft
- Download servers: Dropbox, MyUpload, MEGA, Waistra, 4Shared, Torrent, FileServe. Compressed in TZO, RAR, ARJ, EML, BZ2, ZIP, AZW
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.89 USD
- Dimensions: 156x234x22mm
- Weight: 375g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Cirencester, United Kingdom
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