Richard Pike

Helicopter Boys

True Tales from Operators of Military and Civilian Rotorcraft

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Helicopter Boys explores the role of helicopters in military and civilian situations. Acclaimed author Richard Pike, alongside fourteen contributors, share stories of the diverse nature of their operations. Each story is told with great detail conveying the action and excitement that helicopter pilots experienced with each journey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grub Street Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781911714149
• ISBN-10: 1911714147
• Artikelnr.: 70027711

Autorenporträt

Richard Pike became a flight cadet in 1961 at the RAF College, Cranwell, where on graduation, he was awarded the Dickson Trophy and Michael Hill memorial prize for flying. In the early stages of his forty-year flying career he flew the English Electric Lightning before converting to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. On leaving the Royal Air Force he became a civilian helicopter pilot. His duties took him to a wide variety of destinations at home and overseas including the Falkland Islands not long after the end of the Falklands War. His last assignment was in Kosovo helping to distribute emergency humanitarian aid on behalf of the United Nations World Food Programme. He and his wife live in Aberdeenshire. He is the author of several Grub Street titles including: Lightning Boys, Lightning Boys 2, Hunter Boys and Phantom Boys Volume 1 and 2.