From my earliest memory I have been fascinated with airplanes. I don't know where this fascination came from, but it was always there. When I was eight or nine years old I started building model airplanes. I began with the balsa wood and pa-per models that were powered by rubber bands. I soon graduated to the control line models that were powered by small gasoline engines. I spent hundreds of hours flying those things round and round. I was born during WWII, so a vast number of movies about air combat were there to watch while I was growing up. I probably saw every airplane movie ever made. One movie, "Aviation Cadets," was about some men who went through Air Force Pilot Training. I had always wanted to go flying, to see what it was like up there, and I finally had the opportunity, one summer day in 1957. That one flight convinced me that being a pilot was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and it led to a very enjoyable and exciting forty-five year career in aviation. I invite you to come along with me, and share my expe-riences as I learned to fly, built my flying time, and achieved more advanced pilot credentials, through high school and college. I was determined to get into the U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. This is the story of how I got there.
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After graduation from Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training, Mike Trahan spent two years in the Military Airlift Command, flying the C-141 Starlifter jet transport aircraft. In 1969, he was re-assigned to the AC-47 "Spooky" Gunship and later to the EC-47 Electric Countermeasures aircraft. He served a year of combat in Vietnam in those two aircraft. Captain Trahan separated from the Air Force in 1970, and was hired by Delta Air Lines, Inc. He retired from Delta in 2002, after thirty-two years with that company. Mike Trahan's active flying career spanned forty-five years, from age fifteen to age sixty. His request to God, that he have a life as a pilot, was granted beyond his wildest dreams.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From my earliest memory I have been fascinated with airplanes. I don't know where this fascination came from, but it was always there. When I was eight or nine years old I started building model airplanes. I began with the balsa wood and pa-per models that were powered by rubber bands. I soon graduated to the control line models that were powered by small gasoline engines. I spent hundreds of hours flying those things round and round. I was born during WWII, so a vast number of movies about air combat were there to watch while I was growing up. I probably saw every airplane movie ever made. One movie, 'Aviation Cadets,' was about some men who went through Air Force Pilot Training. I had always wanted to go flying, to see what it was like up there, and I finally had the opportunity, one summer day in 1957. That one flight convinced me that being a pilot was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and it led to a very enjoyable and exciting forty-five year career in aviation. I invite you to come along with me, and share my expe-riences as I learned to fly, built my flying time, and achieved more advanced pilot credentials, through high school and college. I was determined to get into the U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. This is the story of how I got there. Artikel-Nr. 9781516975853
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