Rescue Pilot
- ISBN-10
- 0071391193
- ISBN-13
- 9780071391191
- Series
- Rescue Pilot
- Category
- Helicopter pilots
- Pages
- 316
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill Professional
- Author
- Dan McKinnon
Description
Naval aviator Dan McKinnon recounts the dramatic at-sea rescues conducted during his anything-but-peaceful peacetime service in the US Navy from 1956-1959. Rescue accounts include an ejected test-pilot; a crew member washed overboard their air carrier flight deck; and an amazing mission in the Red China Seas. The long shipboard assignments common to Navy history of time period are also portrayed along with details of flight training and survival training.
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