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Flying Escapades- tragic, hair-raising and hilarious flying stories. This book highlights flying experiences that the author has had and those of others that he met on his journey. The stories range from an aircraft getting blown off the runway in North Carolina to a Learjet descending through a snow storm in northern British Columbia, Canada with a flight crew ignoring the minimum altitude required. Another story deals with a tragic crash on a stormy night with a Learjet 35 doing a Medivac mission to an island off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. At night and in bad weather, why did the pilots make a simple mistake that cost them and the three nurses on board their lives? Th ...

A lengthy book, and pleasant to hold in the hand. What is inside it? Hmm ... stanzas, each in the seventeen syllable form of a haiku: yet constituting informative writing in clear and simple prose (like this description you are reading, which is in the same stanza form). What is it about? The cover says: satire on life and religion. Is it funny, then? Sometimes, and sometimes a good deal worse than funny. There are passages, a few, that bring you up short. What were you thinking? About what you met in your life, and what you thought you think about God. (You know, that God, the most hilarious being in the universe.) The book is built of brief discourses, that seem like s ...