Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying

Product ID: 243701

Publication Date: 2008-04-01
Author(s):W. Scott Olsen
Binding: Paperback
Number of Pages: 246
Publisher: Bison Books
ISBN: 0803211449
ISBN13: 9780803211445

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SKU	0803211449
Weight	0.27 Kgs
Price:	HK$160.00

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Hard AirÂ is a book about extraordinary flyingâ€”flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch padâ€”a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to places where no one should be flying: into hurricanes, firestorms, and deep, engine-killing cold. As a pilot himself, W. Scott Olsen brings to these tales a sense of wonder and adventure as well as a genuine, firsthand understanding of the dangers and rigors of such flying.Â In prose that deftly conveys the grit and grace of his subjects, Olsen transports us into the air with hurricane hunters who fly into the planetâ€™s fiercest storms, with helicopter pilots racing emergency patients to clinics, with Canadian pilots who fly supplies to the Arctic, and with heavy air tanker pilots who drop water and slurry on remote wildfires. Their stories afford a rare look into the working lives of pilots whose methods are extreme and missions are simple: get there, do the job, and get out alive.

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