First Flights
Subtitle: Stories to Inspire From Those Who Fly
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: June 13, 2009
Format: Perfect Bound Softcover(B/W)
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781440132889
Genres: nonfiction
First sentence: When you hear a pilot begin a story that starts out with " There I was ..." you know you're about to hear how the self proclaimed "World's Greatest Aviator" defied the odds once again.
Description: In classic “There I was …” style, the pilot-penned tales in First Flights will take you along as the authors vividly describe their most thrilling aviation firsts. First Flights will transport you to space in the Shuttle for the first-ever docking with the Mir Space Station. You’ll journey around the world in the milestone-setting Voyager aircraft and Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon. You’ll jet to the edge of the atmosphere in the X-15 rocket plane. And you’ll hang on the edge of your seat as you relive test flights of homebuilt airplanes. These true stories, written by the pilots themselves, will have you wondering how they found the courage to accomplish their “first flights,” and are sure to inspire you to pursue your own.
Table of contents: title: I Must Fly; pagenum: 3
title: Becoming Dick Rutan by Dick Rutan; pagenum: 5
title: Many First Flights by William B. Scott; pagenum: 9
title: A Gift for My Son by Kathy Serrano; pagenum: 11
title: Earliest Recollections by Win Sluyter; pagenum: 13
title: Forever Young by Verne Reynolds; pagenum: 19
title: Missing an Airliner by John Carlson; pagenum: 23
title: Picking Up Trains by John E .Jenista; pagenum: 25
title: Fear of Flying by Leslie Green; pagenum: 29
title: And Set You Gently Back Again by Rick Geyerman; pagenum: 37
title: Terrified but Willing by Johnny Chakerian; title: Going Solo; pagenum: 41
title: I'm Ready by Ralph Glasser; pagenum: 45
title: One More Step by Jay Edmiston; pagenum: 49
title: Pearl Harbor Day Solo by Glenn Anderson; pagenum: 51
title: Cross-Country Solo by Christina Naber; pagenum: 55
title: Hopping the Fence by Anson Jones; pagenum: 57
title: Falling for You by Ken Yellen; pagenum: 59
title: Cross-Coutry on Empty by Ken Heidger; pagenum: 61
title: Captain Tow Bar & The Birds by Johnny Chakerian; title: More To Learn; pagenum: 65
title: Climbing Through FL600 by Lars Hoffman; pagenum: 71
title: Crossing the Pond by Jack Roosa; pagenum: 77
title: Reaching "The Big Time" by Tom Poberezny; pagenum: 79
title: First Flight in the Douglas Skyraider by Jimmy Doolittle III; pagenum: 85
title: A Planetary Exploration Mission by Mark Pestana; pagenum: 93
title: Phist Phantom Phlight by Jeff Henderson; pagenum: 97
title: Flying the Bell 47 by John Boyle; pagenum: 105
title: The Day the Sky Fell by Judy Rice; title: The Homebuilt; pagenum: 111
title: The Flying Flivver by Verne Reynolds; pagenum: 117
title: Flying the Waco by Paul Poberezny; pagenum: 119
title: A Vari Viggen Story by Ron Smith; pagenum: 127
title: The Plane is Ready--Pilot is Not by David McCormick; pagenum: 129
title: How Not to Make a First Flight in an RV-6 by Doug Leihy; pagenum: 131
title: A Pitts Story by Jeffrey Kaney; pagenum: 135
title: UFOs by Johnny Chakerian; title: At The Edge of The Enelope; pagenum: 139
title: First Flight in the X-15 by Scott Crossfield; pagenum: 143
title: Yeager's X-1A Flight by Daphne Myrann; pagenum: 147
title: Piggy Backing the Shuttle by Fitzhugh L. Fulton Jr.; pagenum: 155
title: Chasing the Space Shuttle by Jim C. Ross; pagenum: 161
title: First Flights at Scaled Composites by Mike Melvill; pagenum: 171
title: Darm Simple Test Pilot by Tom Hill; title: Being the First; pagenum: 181
title: Docking with Space Station Mir by Charlie Precourt; pagenum: 197
title: Around at Last by Bertand Piccard; pagenum: 205
title: The First Women's Transcontinental Air Derby by Evelyn Trout; pagenum: 211
title: The First Women's Refueling Endurance Flight 1929 by Evelyn Trout; pagenum: 215
title: The Last Leg Home by Dick Rutan; title: Epilogue; pagenum: 219
title: Poppa's Last First Flight by Don Shepperd