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Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism, by
Michael Hirsch, Sept, 2003, hardcover, New American Library, 320 pp.
[To be released in paperback in September, 2004 - web ed.]
This book is about the USAF Pararescuemen in the war on terrorism in
Afghanistan. The pararescuemen (PJ's) of the United States Air
Force are Type-A personalities who aren't easily intimidated. From
the excitement of operating helicopters on the ragged edge of the
envelope in the high density altitudes of the Hindu Kush to the
emotionally draining reporting of the death of a PJ, this book is an
interesting read. From the author's perspective, we see that
interservice rivalry is still in existence and killing US servicemen in
combat areas; that staff officers in the rear areas are more concerned
about the future of their careers than the lives of those in their
command in the field; that the lessons of the past have still not been
learned and that our forces still cannot communicate with each other in
the field. Several high-profile incidents are told in the book.
In one story, the US military headquarters version of events are quite
different from the interviews of the US Special Operations and
Australian SAS field troops who were there. Recommended by Eric
Rood.
Flight
of Passage - A Memoir, by Rinker Buck, June, 1998, paperback,
Hyperion Books, 368 pp. The author, a journalist for "New York
Magazine", recounts the 1966 journey he and his brother took from New
Jersey to California and back aboard their reconditioned Piper Cub
airplane. More than just an adventure story, this memoir tells of the
coming of age of the brothers, who were 15 and 17 at the time of the
flight. Illustrated with photographs. Annotation from
Self-Care,
by Paul M. Gahlinger, MD, PhD, October, 2002, paperback, 240 pp.
Published by Sagebrush Printers. Available at
"The
story begins in 1945, late in World War Two, when a
B-17 on a special mission is shot down by a British Spitfire. The
story shifts to the present with the son of the B-17 pilot searching
government records online in an effort to learn more about the father he
never knew. He hits upon a very sensitive file which sets in
motion an effort by high placed US government officials to kill him.
A crime and cover-up by the US government is revealed as the bad guys
chase the hero to Norway, the scene of his father's airplane crash.
There is a very interesting twist regarding the shooting down of the
B-17.
"A
great autobiography by the well known author of "Weather Flying".
Bob Buck chronicles his aviation career from the biplane days to flying
the line for TWA shortly after it's beginnings. Want to learn
about the differences between flying the DC-2 and DC-3? Just one
of many things you will find in this fantastic book." Eric Rood
Amazon.com
Book Description: As Pete Fusco moved from one wretched flying job
to another in the early days of his aviation career, he displayed a
knack for elevating the most ordinary situations to grand debacle. He
maintains that it wasn't entirely his fault. He assigns part of the
blame on the Gods of Aviation Misfortune, who seemed to stalk him for
their own entertainment. The Gods had help; along the way they enlisted
the services of an ex-biker named Moondog, the Cleveland Mafia, a
mythical beast known as the Curtiss C-46, a Miami smuggler of shrunken
heads and a con artist named Three-fingered Hank. Fusco's story,
Moondog's Academy of the Air, is the story of all pilots who ever
chanced the long odds against making a living flying airplanes and lived
to laugh about it.
Amazon.com
Book Description: Stephen Coonts, New York Times
bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder, Under Siege, and
Cuba, has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about
flying. In The Cannibal Queen, he turns his storytelling genius
to nonfiction with an exultant account of the summer of '91 -- of three
glorious months spent exploring America from the cockpit of a 1942
Stearman vintage biplane. Joining the ranks of John Steinbeck and
Charles Kuralt, Coonts takes us on an extraordinary adventure, touching
down in all forty-eight of the continental United States, from sea to
shining sea.
"... one of my favorite writers. Budd writes for Sport Aviation and
Plane and Pilot Magazine and sometimes for Model Airplane News. Budd
gives many forums at Oshkosh, is a well-known photographer and has a
great sense of humor, slightly warped. He's a Pitts driver and a
friend I've gotten to know from attending his forums. "Cobalt
Blue" is fiction, set in the desert of Arizona and has a very
interesting twist. The book is NOT for kids because of language.
It may be purchased direct from Budd thru his website,
