- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; First Edition edition (3 Aug 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684840170
- ISBN-13: 978-0684840178
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 816,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An account of the author's career with the SFF (Special Forces Flight), the helicopter equivalent of the SAS. McMullon served for eight years with a Chinook squadron, spending over 300 hours at the controls. He gives a detailed analysis of how a Chinook works and what can go wrong. Includes 20 pages of photographs.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is true life and death, this is SFF,
By Hells "Hells Grannie" (Chislehurst, Kent United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chinook!: The Special Forces Flight in War and Peace (Hardcover)
As possibly the only woman to have read this book, I can say that once I started reading it I could not stop. The accounts of his life with the RAF are both graffic and very moving, the description of the 3 child Lockerbie victims with their hands firmly linked will haunt me for the rest of my life. How David McMullon did that particular job at all was testiment to his physical and mental skills. We had a rare chance to see through his eyes the horrors of forces life in war and peace. Not content to accept the official line and his ability to pinpiont technical and operational problems has saved not only his skin but those of his colleagues. I can't help thinking that the Mull of Kintyre incident would not have taken place at all if there had been a "Dave" on board! When you read the book you'll know why I have come to this conclution. On show to the world is his sense of humour, his team spirit, his love of family, his extremely high level of expertise, but most of all his unsinkable passion for flight, I think everyone should read this, not just the military fans!!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Absolute compulsive reading, I could not put this book down,
By A Customer
This review is from: Chinook!: The Special Forces Flight in War and Peace (Paperback)
Not the first special forces book that i have read, but by far the best one. I actually felt like I was flying in the chinook with the author dodging missiles in the Gulf war. Some of the horrors and facts that come out about his time at the Lockerbie disaster still go through my mind now. It is clear from the evidence he brings out that he is an expert in his field, and that the pilots have unjustly been blamed for the Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre. I would highly reccomend the book
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good account,
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This review is from: Chinook!: The Special Forces Flight in War and Peace (Paperback)
David McMullon provides one of the few inside accounts of the RAF Special Forces Flight within 7 RAF SQ. That alone makes this book of interest. His account of Lockerbie is very dramatic--and as an American--very disturbing in its detail of the horror that the passengers of the Pan Am 747 went through as they plunged to their deaths. His account of his participation in the Gulf War, however, seems rather rushed through. The dust jacket claims McMullon's crew searched for the missing SAS Bravo Two Zero patrol...but McMullon makes mention of this only in an aside. McMullon does make a strong case that the crew of the ill-fated RAF Chinook Mk2 that crashed on the Mull of Kintyre should be absolved of blame.
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