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Tales of a Helicopter Pilot [Hardcover]

Richard C. Kirkland (Author)

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Publication Date: January 17, 2002

Richard Kirkland is legendary for his P-38 Lightning missions in the South Pacific theater during WWII. After the war, he realized the potential of Igor Sikorsky’s new flying machine, and he traded in his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. The nerve-racking chopper missions he has flown are the stuff of legend: scrambling to evacuate president Harry Truman after an unthinkable “code red one” alert comes over his red phone; bantering with the real “Hawkeye” at a MASH unit before flying into North Korea to rescue wounded soldiers. Equally riveting are his accounts of a medevac pilot in Vietnam who lands a ten ton CH-46 “Frog” in the jungle at night, with no lights, under fire, with only a soldier’s cigarette lighter for reference; and an aerial tour pilot who routinely pulls people out of the water above, below, and right before Niagara Falls.

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books; First Edition edition (January 17, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560989521
ISBN-13: 978-1560989523
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

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This book was so well written, informative & entertaining all at the same time that I was done reading it long before I wanted to be done!
I intend to purchase his other book about fixed-wing flying just because if it is half as good as this one I can't go wrong!

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