SINGLE ENGINE TO SINGAPORE
CAUSE UNKNOWN
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Its not every night the phone wakes me with an invitation to commit suicide. Was this someone's idea of a death wish? No doubt -- my immortality was to be tested again.
This
As I struggled to get my ears
synched to the familiar voice he began filling my head with an idea, which
could prove he was crazy. No one, in his
right mind, would ever dream of flying 'SOLO' to ‘
By the time I started making
sense out of his cockney brogue, I heard, "You've got three bloody days to
get to
Life under this unpredictable world-class aviator, who had in recent years helped to keep my larder full, made life extremely hectic.
‘I listened when I should have hung up’.
He had bid on a ferry contract to
deliver three new, seven place, 207 Cessna station airs, 'halfway' around the world.
The recipient was to be the Singapore Flying Club on the tip of the
Hawke hadn't given me much time to accept his idiotic, but lucrative offer. He had promised a very discrete group of international players, "Delivery in three weeks!"
That didn't leave much time for
convincing me to get off my rump and head for the Cessna factory in
There I lay in the sanctity of a
warm bed, half asleep, trying to ferret out a logical reason to say no -- when
suddenly -- my own over powering ego put words in my mouth . . .
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About the Book
Aviation and aviators are seldom
exposed to the real world of manual flight.
Professional commercial pilots – The Sir Galahads of the heavy iron –
long for a chance to flit through the heavens on gossamer wings. No hero’s here, only the thrill and excitement
of doing the impossible. First hand
flying experiences seldom touch the exuberance of going beyond the horizon and
into the vacant air of high adventure.
You will fly through unimaginable mental cartwheels whiles feeling the
swiftness of the shifting weather conditions.
No hanger talk to dull the mood, only high ambitions and throbbing
action. Take a ride to the edge of our
breathing space and see what emotions may block the way. Fact is far more thrilling than fiction, and
here is a chance to fill an invisible seat and take command of the
thrills. Be forever fascinated by the
towering realms beyond the sunset. Take
time to see if the pilot is qualified.
About the Author
This experience is a testimony
from an adventurer to those aspiring pilots who can only dream of such a
delirious flight. He was married 4
times, fathered 3 or 4 children, he knows of – then after thousands of hours of
pushing throttles to the firewall – crashed behind a Watchmaker’s bench. Share a Viking’s aerial voyage across the
seas of turmoil and delusion. Young and
old – all pilots of the adorable Spam Cans – will se through the eyes of a true
navigator the only independent arena where flying is a thrilling
challenge. Landings may cause the heart
to flutter – wait until his hands, eyes and feet beat the odds on a dynamic and
suicidal takeoff.