Inhaltsangabe
Flight of the Setting Sun is an action adventure love story; a 568-page historical fiction novel covering four decades. The story of Captain Jake Martin, heir to a Texas oil fortune and China Clipper pilot, tells of his exploits piloting experimental flying boats in the 1930s, P-40 fighter planes in prewar Burma, B-17 bomber raids and espionage flights into wartime Europe. A friend and associate of Juan Tripp and Howard Hughes, Jake becomes an aviation industrialist during and after W.W.II and the designing one of the first American corporate jets.The story begins in 1926 when Jake is eleven years old and concludes in the 1960s. This story captures the true feeling of the glory years of aeronautical development from Jenny to the jet. Jake's life adventure takes him from Texas to New York, California, to the Asian Pacific and to wartime London.It is not just a tale of adventure, but a story of one man's struggle to deal with a failed marriage to the wrong woman, raising two young children on his own and the loss of the young girl he called the Dragon Lady he met and fell in love with in 1941 Burma.Jake Martin was a man given a passion for flight when he was very young and lived the life that was dealt him as a result of that passion. It is a story of choices, the choices that each of us makes in our lives that define who we are and what we become.Flight of the Setting Sun is a fiction biography. None of the events actually occurred in the way they are described in this story. The use of characters with famous names in the story is intended only to represent the stereotypical characteristics of those personalities.
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The author Marvin E. Arnold spent many summers on his grandfather's Oklahoma ranch. Memories of the Red River Valley and the Texas oil fields are reflected in the early chapters of this novel. Attending school near Wright-Patterson AFB after WW II, he played on the scrapped experimental planes stored among the captured German and Japanese aircraft. He also befriended the rocketeers from Peenemunde. With some literary license many aspects of this novel and the historical period on which it is based are from some of the author's earliest recollections.While attending the University of Oklahoma, he learned to fly from Burrell Tibbs who had taught Wiley Post to fly. The author holds FAA commercial, multi-engine, instrument and seaplane ratings. His military experiences include AFROTC, aircrew instructor on P2V ASW aircraft, liaison pilot with the National Guard and officer in the State Guard. His work as a design engineer on the C-142, F8U Crusader, F-111, C5A and Aerospatiale helicopters provide the background for the fictional aviation empire in the novel.
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