Drama in The Air

{detailed description}John Beattie has spent years collecting stories first hand from pilots and aircrew who experienced the terror of near-death in the air. Now, in Drama in the Air, he excitingly recreates the exploits and lives of the pilots involved.
He tells of a ground engineer who, in error during a ground test, unleashed the brutal power of a Lightning 1,500 mph Fighter's afterburners, to hurtle down a runway at ever-increasing speed — committed to a take-off he could not abort, without cockpit cover, radio contact or safety belt. He recalls the dramatic story of the crew of a Royal Navy search and rescue unit who flew their helicopter backwards towards unseen high cliffs on the Cornish coast to rescue the seamen trapped aboard a foundering trawler . . . all this in a blinding blizzard. He vividly brings alive the terror of a young sports parachutist when the canopy of his 'chute hooked over the tailplane of the little Cessna from which he had just jumped. He tells of a helicopter winchman, untethered from his lifeline, climbing down a near-vertical mountain face to save the life of a badly injured climber. The airman is frightened of heights — and his footwear is a pair of wellington boots!
All these — and many other — adventures come alive in dramatic, authentic detail in John Beattie's gripping book.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by john Beattie
Published by Guild 1989 edition. 223pp illustrated 14x22
{condition}fine, including d/j.
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