| The Gift: The Beginning Contributor(s): Trahan, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1516975855 ISBN-13: 9781516975853 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Transportation | Aviation - Piloting & Flight Instruction |
| Series: Gift |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.65 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From my earliest memory I have been fascinated with airplanes. I don't know where this fascination came from, but it was always there. When I was eight or nine years old I started building model airplanes. I began with the balsa wood and pa-per models that were powered by rubber bands. I soon graduated to the control line models that were powered by small gasoline engines. I spent hundreds of hours flying those things round and round. I was born during WWII, so a vast number of movies about air combat were there to watch while I was growing up. I probably saw every airplane movie ever made. One movie, "Aviation Cadets," was about some men who went through Air Force Pilot Training. I had always wanted to go flying, to see what it was like up there, and I finally had the opportunity, one summer day in 1957. That one flight convinced me that being a pilot was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and it led to a very enjoyable and exciting forty-five year career in aviation. I invite you to come along with me, and share my expe-riences as I learned to fly, built my flying time, and achieved more advanced pilot credentials, through high school and college. I was determined to get into the U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. This is the story of how I got there. |