Lloyd D. Knight

Diary of a Pilot (eBook, ePUB)

Above and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Like many veterans of many wars, I have seldom told of my combat/overseas experiences and encounters. I flew in combat as a 20yo fighter pilot during the Korean War in 1953 and as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War in 1969. During my nineteen years in the Royal Australian Air Force I also flew C130 transport operations during the Malayan Emergency, the Indonesian confrontation and the Viet Nam War, including one circumnavigation of the planet.

The following 35 short stories relate some of the more memorable occurrences that I experienced during my 52 years as an aviator. I logged 5,000 hours in aeroplanes and 11,000 in helicopters I have started with the first dozen from Vietnam because I had an inexplicable urge to write something about that disturbed time. So that was the beginning of this return to the memories, some bad but mostly good, of my flying life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643671284
• Artikelnr.: 54868493

Autorenporträt

"I was born in Sydney, Australia in 1932. Leaving high school at a pre-matriculation level, I joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1951. My flying career spanned an unbroken period to my retirement in 2003. It comprised three approximately equal phases, as an Air Force pilot, Commercial Pilot and Examiner of Airmen/Flying Operations Inspector with CASA (Australian equivalent to FAA). My first marriage of 13 years ended when I returned from Viet Nam. I had two sons, losing one at age 23. My eldest son lives in Sydney. My second marriage lasted 45 years before my wife died in 2015. I have three step-sons and four grandsons. I am an active member of Rotary International, volunteer in Stroke Support and live in a friendly retirement village Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Previous publications are; a home study course in Instrument Flying, (1980, now out-dated), and a novel, 'Rainbow, no end' (2005).