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(More customer reviews)I don't normally write book reviews, but having read this book and after reading some guy from Minnesota's poison pen review, I decided maybe I should. The book is not a single story, but a series of very short flying incidents based on one pilot's lifetime of flying experiences. While not that well written, it seems to approach the stories with a satirical writing style that might cause a reader, without a keen sense of humor, to simply not get it! I wonder if the reviewer even read the book, because nowhere in the text, at least that I could find, was there any mention of an SR-71, let alone a Douglas Blackbird? It becomes obvious the average reader of this book that the author has a profound basic faith in the will of God and tries to, by the stories, say that each of us should live the hand that is dealt us as best we can. It is also interesting to note the prior reviewer also pans another book that discusses faith leading one to wonder he objects more to the will of God than he does to the book? Oh and the B&W photos are poor, but blame the publisher for that, not the author.
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Flying Stories is a compilation of stories from the author's real life experiences in aviation. This is the new 382-page edition, a re-publication of an earlier 324-page draft printed in limited release. Completely re-edited and condensed, the book is still somewhat biographical in nature and written in an eclectic tongue-in-cheek style of writing. So don't overlook the author's keen sense of humor.The book is not a contiguous story, but a series of memoirs related to flying that lead to what happened next in the author's life. The kind of stories pilots tell hanging around the hanger when not flying. Thus, with this book you would not be about to read the great American novel. Also, contained in the book are a couple hundred poor to average quality B&W photos related to the stories.The book begins with some of the author's boyhood experiences and what it was like growing up during World War II. It is a brief look at the external forces that might work on any young person to cause them to grow up wanting to be a pilot or an engineer.Hopefully, the book will give the reader an insight into the American aerospace industries' coming of age in the 60s and 70s.The author resists the temptation to burden the reader with a lot of techno-babble and tells stories of his learning to fly and his nearly half a century of flying experiences the way he remembers them.Many of the stories mention the more mundane and less important side of the event being described. All of the stories in this book are true. Only some of the last names have been omitted to protect the guilty and those who might possibly still be alive.
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