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“randolph mains”

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  • Dear Mom I'm Alive--Letters Home from Blackwidow 25

    by Randolph Mains ...
    For a year Randy Mains endured gross incompetence in the chain of command, top-secret excursions into neutral Laos, routine recovery missions that would turn suddenly, unexpectedly into life-threatening nightmares—more than one thousand combat hours flying into the perilous heart of a terrifying jungle inferno. In the wild, unruly fraternity of combat flyers he learned the meaning of courage and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Hour

    by Randolph Mains ...
    Written by award-winning journalist and recipient of the first annual Golden Hour award recognizing a pilot for their contribution to further the concept of helicopter EMS, HEMS, in America, The Golden Hour is a suspense-filled adventure with a serious theme. It puts the reader in the pilot's seat of an EMS helicopter flying life-saving missions and risking death at every turn. It brings to life ... Read more

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  • Journey to the Golden Hour—My Path to the Most Dangerous Job in America: Flying a Medical Helicopter

    by Randolph Mains ...
    Journey to the Golden Hour follows the path of Randy Mains, an ex-Vietnam combat helicopter pilot harboring a burning passion to fly after the war. In this personal account, using his personal diaries that he's kept over the years, Mains recounts his incredible journey to find work abroad which he does first on a 1369-square-mile cattle station in the Australian outback. There he and his boss ... Read more

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  • Rattler One-Seven: A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot's War Story

    by Chuck Gross ...
    Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran. At the age of twenty Chuck Gross spent his 1970-71 tour with the 71st Assault Helicopter Company flying UH-1 Huey helicopters. He inserted special operations teams into Laos and participated in Lam Son 719 a misbegotten ... Read more

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  • Black Box

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    by Nicholas Faith ...
    The smash-hit bestseller about the world's worst air crashes and the disaster detectives who pick through the wreckage to find out why they happened - now fully revised and updated, with 30% new material.From the early tragedies of the Comet and the DC10 to the modern-day horror of the Concorde catastrophe in Paris and the mysterious loss of an Air France Airbus over the Atlantic, Faith ... Read more

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  • Nam Sense

    Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division

    by Arthur Wiknik ...
    A candid memoir of being sent to Vietnam at age nineteen, witnessing the carnage of Hamburger Hill, and returning to an America in turmoil.Arthur Wiknik was a teenager from New England when he was drafted into the US Army in 1968, shipping out to Vietnam early the following year. Shortly after his arrival on the far side of the world, he was assigned to Camp Evans near the northern village of ... Read more

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  • Rupert Red Two: A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    A Fighter Pilot's Life From Thunderbolts to Thunderchiefs

    by Jack Broughton,Richard P. Hallion ...
    In 1945 Second Lieutenant Jack Broughton graduated from West Point with the silver pilot wings of a newly commissioned member of the Army Air Corps. Nearly thirty years later, he retired as a full colonel in the United States Air Force, an entity that didn't even exist when he first learned to fly. Along the way Colonel Broughton saw duty in virtually every fighter aircraft the Air Corps and then ... Read more

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  • Chickenhawk

    by Robert Mason ...
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  • Dangerous Lessons And Guardian Angels

    An Airline Pilot's Story

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  • A Lonely Kind of War

    Forward Air Controller, Vietnam

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    From retired Air Force pilot Marshall Harrison comes a remarkable memoir of aerial warfare in Vietnam. In his third combat tour, Harrison found himself converted from the high performance world of jets to the awkward-looking OV-10 Bronco and assigned as a FAC forward air controller. A captivating tale of valor, brotherhood, and patriotism unravels in the pages of A Lonely Kind of War, Forward Air ... Read more

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