Bob Buck

North Star Over My Shoulder

A Flying Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Buck, the embodiment of commercial aviation in America, recounts his thrilling life in flight in this exhilarating volume, hailed as "absolutely brilliant" by the former director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780743262309
• ISBN-10: 0743262301
• Artikelnr.: 21925616

Autorenporträt

Bob Buck is the author of four previous books, including Weather Flying and The Pilot's Burden.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
1. Night Flight
2. Hooked
3. Records
4. Co-Education
5. Apprentice Time
6. Early Airplanes and How We Flew Them
7. Way Out West
8. Copilot Days and Nights
9. Checkout
10. Captain Buck
11. The Battle of Presque Isle
12. Intercontinental
13. Across the North Atlantic
14. Two Kind Words
15. Flights of Fancy with a Purpose
16. Distractions and Adventure
17. Chief
18. Around the World
19. A Brief Debriefing
20. Chance of a Lifetime
21. Back on the Line
22. Paris and Beyond
23. A Summons from Howard Hughes
24. Farewell to Propellers and All That Drove Them
25. 707 Days
26. SST or Not SST
27. Home, and Above
28. Around the World -- Upside Down
29. Grand Dame
30. Fin
Index