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Richard Kirkland is legendary for his P-38 Lightning missions in the South Pacific theater during WWII. After the war, he realized the potential of Igor Sikorskys new flying machine, and he traded in his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. The nerve-racking chopper missions he has flown are the stuff of legend: scrambling to evacuate president Harry Truman after an unthinkable code red one alert comes over his red phone; bantering with the real Hawkeye at a MASH unit before flying into North Korea to rescue wounded soldiers. Equally riveting are his accounts of a medevac pilot in Vietnam who lands a ten ton CH-46 Frog in the jungle at night, with no lights, under fire, with only a soldiers cigarette lighter for reference; and an aerial tour pilot who routinely pulls people out of the water above, below, and right before Niagara Falls.
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Richard C. Kirkland "Tales of a Helicopter Pilot"
5 Oct 2007
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This book was so well written, informative & entertaining all at the same time that I was done reading it long before I wanted to be done!
I intend to purchase his other book about fixed-wing flying just because if it is half as good as this one I can't go wrong!
I intend to purchase his other book about fixed-wing flying just because if it is half as good as this one I can't go wrong!
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