FIFTY YEARS OF FLYING FUN: FROM THE HUNTER TO THE SPITFIRE AND BACK AGAIN
Written by Rod Dean
Published by Grub Street
in 2015
ISBN: 9781909808270
FIFTY YEARS OF FLYING FUN: FROM THE HUNTER TO THE SPITFIRE AND BACK AGAIN
Written by Rod Dean.
Stock no. 1816358
1st.
2015.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
Over fifty continuous years of flying through the memoir of a man who lived through it all. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w and colour photos. 220 pages including index. ISBN: 9781909808270.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Chapter One - In the Beginning
- Chapter Two - Into the Air Force
- Chapter Three - 'Lofty' Lance
- Chapter Four - Fast Jets - But Only Just
- Chapter Five - The Hunter jet
- Chapter Six - 43 Squadron - 'The Fighting Cocks'
- Chapter Seven - Three Visits to the Station Commander's Office
- Chapter Eight - You Can't Do It Unless You Have Done It Before (or The Ferry - Part One)
- Chapter Nine - The Ferry Part Two
- Chapter Ten - Back Home
- Chapter Eleven - RAF Muharraq
- Chapter Twelve - The World's Best Vanishing Trick
- Chapter Thirteen - Back Home Yet Again
- Chapter Fourteen - A Change of Venue
- Chapter Fifteen - Off to 'Der Fuhrer Land'
- Chapter Sixteen - West Wales
- Chapter Seventeen - A Final Visit to the Middle East - Oman
- Chapter Eighteen - Display Flying - The Early Days
- Chapter Nineteen - The Spitfire at Last!
- Chapter Twenty - Back to the Jets
- Appendix
- Index