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Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
ISBN
1472917944
EAN
9781472917942
Date of Publication
2016-03-10
Publication Name
N/A
Type
Paperback / softback
Release Title
Rescue Pilot: Cheating the Sea
Artist
Grayson, Jerry
Brand
N/A
Colour
N/A
Book Title
Rescue Pilot : Cheating the Sea
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Length
7.8 in
Publication Year
2016
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Jerry Grayson
Genre
Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Width
4.7 in
Number of Pages
240 Pages
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1472917944
ISBN-13
9781472917942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8038631992

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rescue Pilot : Cheating the Sea
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Aviation / Piloting & Flight Instruction, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Jerry Grayson
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
6.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
4.7 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Interesting to read a different viewpoint of that tragic Fastnet Race. Grayson's recollection is moving: it reads like a roll-call of terror.
Dewey Decimal
359.4092
Synopsis
Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously ill crewman from the deck of a nuclear-armed submarine that is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has lived a life of unparalleled excitement and adventure. His finest hour came during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Race of 1979 in which 25 yachts were lost. When a catastrophic storm enveloped the competitors he and his crew pushed their Wessex helicopter to its absolute limits and put their own lives at risk, flying into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty the Queen was the result. Being a Rescue Pilot is a fast-paced career because there is no choice. Lives are at stake and pilots must move and think fast. Jerry Grayson's inside view of this heroic service is as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly told, frequently funny but also very poignant, Jerry's story is not an account of just one man's deeds, it is a salute to all the men and women he worked with who were able to turn tragedies into triumphs.Includes a Foreword by HRH The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm., Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age seventeen, he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age twenty-five, he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously ill crewman from the deck of a nuclear-armed submarine that is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has lived a life of unparalleled excitement and adventure. His finest hour came during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Race of 1979, in which twenty-five yachts were lost. When a catastrophic storm enveloped the competitors, he and his crew pushed their Wessex helicopter to its absolute limit and put their own lives at risk, flying into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty the Queen was the result. Being a rescue pilot is a fast-paced career because there is no choice. Lives are at stake and pilots must move and think fast. Jerry Grayson's inside view of this heroic service is as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly told, frequently funny, but also very poignant, Jerry's story is not an account of just one man's deeds, it is a salute to all the men and women he worked with who were able to turn tragedies into triumphs. Foreword by HRH the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm.
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TL553.8

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    Exciting stories told in easy to read language.

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