Living the Dream! - James, Austin
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This is the story of my life, from childhood struggles with polio to leaving home at seventeen for an apprenticeship with British Aircraft Corporation, working on the iconic Concorde. My career path took me through Westland Helicopters and British Rail, before a 22-year career at British Airways in London, where I became a Senior Airline Engineer, licensed to maintain a fleet of company aircraft. After that, I turned to flying for pleasure and eventually became a Chief Flying Instructor, starting my own flying school. Over 36 years of training pilots, I experienced fourteen engine failures,…mehr

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This is the story of my life, from childhood struggles with polio to leaving home at seventeen for an apprenticeship with British Aircraft Corporation, working on the iconic Concorde. My career path took me through Westland Helicopters and British Rail, before a 22-year career at British Airways in London, where I became a Senior Airline Engineer, licensed to maintain a fleet of company aircraft. After that, I turned to flying for pleasure and eventually became a Chief Flying Instructor, starting my own flying school. Over 36 years of training pilots, I experienced fourteen engine failures, three near misses, and two bird strikes-the most dramatic being a fight with a buzzard that smashed through the windscreen, hitting my student in the face, leaving him with a black eye and a split lip, and ending up draped around his neck like a scarf. I also survived a cockpit fire shortly after takeoff that burned my left leg. Then there's the story of a mild-mannered, religious pilot who became a good friend. He once told me about the day his ejection seat failed during a jet spin-out, sending him plummeting toward the ground. Resigned to death, he was saved by a voice in his head that he believed was God, offering the solution just in time.
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Austin James was born in a sleepy town in Wales. He overcame polio at age two, and with no more than a secondary education and without much prospect of employment in the area, he travelled across the newly built Severn Bridge in 1969 to take up an apprenticeship on Concorde at Filton, before moving to a twenty-two-year career at British Airways in London, another difficult move. Then he became chief flying instructor for Cloudbase Aviation, a private limited company he set up. Over the past 38 years, he has recounted the adventures and pitfalls that came with that life of adventure. In this second book, he focuses more on his personal life, including the sadness of losing parents and pilot friends, along with more interesting experiences not mentioned in book one, Living the Dream.