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Do you want to know what it feels like to take off and land a Boeing 737 at a busy airport? Or how about flying an F-18 Hornet at more than a thousand miles an hour?
Ride with young Chris Galloway in the jump seat of the 737 as the pilot and co-pilot run through their pre-flight checks before jamming the throttles forward and roaring down the runway. Then take a tour of the real Top Gun school and listen to a dogfight over the desert skies.
This exciting, fact-filled adventure will help you learn how planes really fly, and what the world looks like from 30,000 feet! There's cockpit and control tower chatter, authentic sound effects, and exciting music. If you've ever wanted a behind-the-scenes look at actual flying experiences, don't miss this flight!
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Geoffrey T Williams
My love of science started when my geologist father told me a rock I had found in the back yard of our Wyoming house was a dinosaur bone. Fast-forward some years, and I wrote a short book called "Dinosaur World" and produced the cassette tape that went along with it. Thanks to a small publishing company named Price Stern Sloan, the book and tape went "viral," selling tens of thousands of copies in just a few months. That success led to the other Dinosaur World volumes, which eventually sold more than eight million copies. From that I branched out to write about other sciences I loved, including astronomy and space travel, entomology, oceanography, etc. And since I love producing audio, almost all the books included cassette tapes, and later, CDs.
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I'm a Jet Pilot - Geoffrey T Williams
I’m a Jet Pilot
By Geoffrey T. Williams
Illustrated by Nixon Galloway
Copyright 1991 Geoffrey T. Williams – Smashwords Edition
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – I Knew Just How It Felt
Chapter 2 – The Invitation
Chapter 3 – Sitting In the Jumpseat
Chapter 4 - Climbing
Chapter 5 – How Does Something This Big Fly?
Chapter 6 – And The Trees Get Smaller
Chapter 7 – Traffic! Traffic!
Chapter 8 – In the Pilot Seat
Chapter 9 – Fightertown, U.S.A.
Chapter 10 – In the Control Tower
Chapter 11 – Air Combat Training
Chapter 12 – Dog Fight
Chapter 13 – Bogey!
Chapter 14 – Try This on for Size
Chapter 15 - Wildcat
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