Name: Secrets From the Cockpit - Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories (en Inglés)
Price: 32690.00 CLP
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Author: Robert Schapiro
ISBN: 9781928248149

portada Secrets From the Cockpit - Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Jonathan Ball Publishers

Autor

Robert Schapiro

Año

2021

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

258

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781928248149

Categorías

Biografías de personas históricas, políticos y soldados
Historias reales de la guerra

Secrets From the Cockpit - Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories (en Inglés)

Robert Schapiro (Autor) · Jonathan Ball Publishers · Tapa Blanda

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'A witty, sometimes heart-stopping, and always engrossing path from "boy pilot" to elite aviator.' - Jaundiced Eye columnist, William Saunderson-MeyerRobert Schapiro always wanted to fly. Challenging anti-Semitic bullying, mockery and fierce rivalry, he realised his dream by earning his wings in the South African Air Force and going on to command C-47 Dakotas in the Border War. He joined South African Airways (SAA) in 1979, soon learning it was a time when SAA crews were dominated by the 'Royal Family' - captains who thought themselves above the rules and who spent time overseas on drinking binges or coaxing air hostesses to be their 'airline wives'. When sanctions forced SAA to cut back on its routes, he was seconded to Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines, routinely flying between New York and Tokyo and grappling with often-hilarious cultural misunderstandings as he adapted to a Japanese style of operations. Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot. He divulges near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans (seat sex, anyone?), how pilots control rowdy travellers and absorbing detail about the technique of flying different aircraft types. Uplifting and humorous, his memoir offers a rare slice of aviation history.