Good Read --- HL 376 (2)

David Roberts has been very faithful plugging the books of Delta Authors.  He has religiously put new published works before the group and promoted their work. 

Well, below is the PCN list of Delta Authors and there are many many books on this list that would make a great birthday or Christmas gift.  Please check out this PCN list that mostly originates with David’s lists with an addition or two that sent in their info directly to the PCN. 

DELTA AUTHORS:

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Death of a Pilot: A World War II Christmas Story

As a gift to The Daily Independent readers, the Jesse Stuart Foundation is pleased to share a story from “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” a collection of true stories from the Library of Congress that celebrates the spirit of Christmas during World War II. This story is entitled “Death of a Pilot.”

We dreaded Christmas that year. It was 1944, and it seemed that the war would never be over for our family.

Born in the Midwest, my brother Bob rode horseback to school but wanted to fly an airplane from the first day he saw one. By the time he was twenty-one we were living in Seattle. When World War II broke out, Bob headed for the nearest recruitment office. Slightly built, skinny like his father, he was ten pounds underweight.

Undaunted, he persuaded Mother to cook every fattening food she could think of. He ate before meals, between meals, and after meals. Finally, he passed the weigh-in with eight ounces to spare.

When he was named Hot Pilot of primary training school and later involuntarily joined the “Caterpillar Club” (engine failure causing the bailout) at St. Mary’s California, we shook our heads and worried.  Mother prayed. Bob was born fearless, and she knew it. Before graduating, he applied for transfer to Marine Air Corps at Pensacola, Florida.  He trained on torpedo bombers that were being sent into combat overseas.

Bob died under enemy fire over New Guinea in the plane he wanted so desperately to fly.

Mother’s faith sustained her, but father aged before our eyes. He would listen politely when the minister came to call, but we knew Daddy was bitter. He dragged himself to work every day but lost interest in everything, including his beloved Masonic club. He wanted a Masonic ring.  At Mother’s insistence, he’d started saving for the ring, but that ceased, too.

I dreaded the approach of Christmas. My late brother had loved Christmas. His surprises were legendary: a doll house made at school, a puppy hidden in a mysterious place for our little brother, an expensive dress for Mother bought with the very first money he ever earned. Everything had been a surprise.

What would Christmas be without Bob? Not much. Family was coming, so we went through the motions as much for his memory as anything, but our hearts weren’t in it.

On December 23, an official looking package arrived. My father watched stone-faced as Mother unpacked Bob’s dress blues. Silence hung heavy. As she refolded the uniform to put it away, a mother’s practicality resurfaced, and she went through the pockets almost by rote.

In a small inside pocket was a folded $50 bill with a tiny note in Bob’s familiar handwriting: “For Dad’s Masonic ring.”

If I live to be one hundred, I will never forget the look on my father’s face. Some kind of transformation took place – a touch of wonder, a hint of joy, a quiet serenity that was glorious to behold.  Oh, the healing power of love! He stood transfixed, staring at the note and the trimly folded bill in his hand for what seemed an eternity, then walked to Bob’s picture hanging prominently on the wall and solemnly saluted. “Merry Christmas, son,” he murmured, and turned to welcome Christmas.

By James M. Gifford
JSF CEO & Senior Editor

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Good Read -- HL 375

Buy a book for yourself or a gift. 

David Roberts has been very faithful plugging the books of Delta Authors.  He has religiously put new published works before the group and promoted their work. 

Well, below is the PCN list of Delta Authors and there are many many books on this list that would make a great birthday or Christmas gift.  Please check out this PCN list that mostly originates with David’s lists with an addition or two that sent in their info directly to the PCN. 

DELTA AUTHORS:

https://pcn.homestead.com/Authors.html

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Good Read -- HL 374 (1)

David Roberts has been very faithful plugging the books of Delta Authors.  He has religiously put new published works before the group and promoted their work. 

Well, below is the PCN list of Delta Authors and there are many many books on this list that would make a great birthday or Christmas gift.  Please check out this PCN list that mostly originates with David’s lists with an addition or two that sent in their info directly to the PCN. 

DELTA AUTHORS:

https://pcn.homestead.com/Authors.html

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Good Read -- HL 373 (1)

David Roberts has been very faithful plugging the books of Delta Authors.  He has religiously put new published works before the group and promoted their work. 

Well, below is the PCN list of Delta Authors and there are many many books on this list that would make a great birthday or Christmas gift.  Please check out this PCN list that mostly originates with David’s lists with an addition or two that sent in their info directly to the PCN. 

DELTA AUTHORS:

https://pcn.homestead.com/Authors.html

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Good Read -- HL 371 (1)

The First Nonstop Flight Across the Atlantic Lasted 16 Harrowing Hours

John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown flew across the Atlantic with the help of a sextant, whisky and coffee

in 1919—eight years before Charles Lindbergh's flight.

Erin Blakemore

SSPL/Getty Images

Published: June 13, 2019

Last Updated: May 27, 2025

If you’d have stopped reading there, you might think that Alcock and Brown’s journey had ended in failure. For 16 fraught hours, they’d been trapped in a rudimentary airplane in abysmal weather, their only means of navigation a sextant, an instrument that measured celestial objects in relation to the horizon. Their journey had been beset with blunders, and more often than not, fog and clouds had covered the stars, making it nearly impossible for Brown to determine their location.

John Alcock (center) holds a model of their biplane alongside Arthur Whitten Brown (center right), who is holding a mailbag after completing the first nonstop transatlantic flight. They carried several items of mail with them and in doing so, effectively transported the first transatlantic airmail to Britain. 

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Yet their journey was a triumph. Despite their graceless landing in a bog on June 15, 1919, Alcock and Brown were the first people ever to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly a decade before Charles Lindbergh caught the world’s attention with his own transatlantic flight, the flying duo made history. Their adventure paid off: The pair not only became pioneering aviators but beat out a group of other pilots vying for a huge cash prize in a cut-throat competition to be the first transatlantic aviators.

The prize was the brainchild of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, a British newspaper tycoon who owned The Daily Mail, one of England’s most influential newspapers. Like many magnates of his day, Lord Northcliffe was fascinated by new modes of transportation. Air flight was still a novelty, and a group of pioneering aviators, funded by rich patrons like Northcliffe, wanted to know just how far the technology could be pushed.

Northcliffe was a founding member of England’s Aero Club, a group of aviation enthusiasts interested in expanding and popularizing air flight. In 1906, he offered a 10,000-pound purse to the first balloonist to fly from London to Manchester. Ten thousand pounds was an enormous amount of money at the time—worth over 600,000 dollars today.

Northcliffe continued offering prizes for aviation accomplishments, which brought attention to his newspaper as well as stimulated competition among aviators. The prize purses were also part of a larger trend of widely publicized technological competitions that rewarded people who adopted new technologies like air flight.

The public followed along as intrepid motorists, cyclists and pilots set new milestones in their fields, slowly pushing the new technology to its limits. Air prizes were handed out to pilots who broke records in everything from speed to distance, and those who competed and won became celebrities.

Northcliffe’s most ambitious prize offering was for a transatlantic flight. The prize offered 10,000 pounds to a pilot who not only crossed the Atlantic from somewhere in North America to Great Britain or Ireland—a feat that had yet to be accomplished—but who did it within 72 hours.

The planes of the 1910s were so primitive that the prize seemed almost impossible to win. World War I changed that. The Great War put a temporary stop to the competition, but it also pushed plane technology to new heights, as air flight became a tool of war. In turn, the aviation industry grew and the technology behind flight improved dramatically. By the end of the war, a group of war-hardened pilots—and planes that had been weapons of war—were ready to vie for the prize.

Among them were Alcock and Brown, both military pilots and prisoners of war during World War I. During his imprisonment, Alcock dreamed of crossing the Atlantic via plane. Once the war ended, he set about making his dream come true.

Vickers Vimy twin-engined biplane, a converted WWI bomber, flown by former RAF fliers John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown on their nonstop transatlantic flight. 

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His aspiration was shared by other aviators. Multiple teams of pilots and aircraft manufacturers vied for the prize and failed again and again. In May 1919, a group of Navy and Coast Guard airmen flew across the Atlantic in the NC-4, a seaplane that took three weeks, and multiple stops, to get across the ocean. But since Northcliffe’s contest was only open to non-military flyers, and required the journey be completed in 72 hours with no stops, the NC-4 made history but didn’t win the prize.

Another team backed by British aircraft company Handley Page wanted to beat Alcock and Brown and shipped a plane to Newfoundland in preparation for the flight. Alcock and Brown were there, too, with a Vickers Vimy bomber that had been modified for transatlantic flight. On June 14, 1919, while the Handley Page team languished as its leaders conducted flight tests, Alcock and Brown started their flight attempt.

It was a disaster. The takeoff was bumpy and treacherous. Then the radio failed. Fog overwhelmed the pilots, making navigation—conducted by sextant—next to impossible. Soon, the plane was covered in ice. Sitting in an open cockpit, the men began to freeze. At times, Alcock lost control of the plane entirely, plunging toward the sea. At another, their engine stopped working, choked by ice.

“We looped the loop,” Alcock recalled. “We did some very comic stunts, for I had no sense of the horizon.”

Blinded by the weather and uncertain of their exact location, the men flew and flew. Fueled by sandwiches, coffee and whisky, they passed the time by singing and worrying about whether the punishing weather would destroy their fuel tanks.

The first nonstop transatlantic flight ended with a nosedive into a bog in western Ireland. The pilots walked away unscathed.

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Finally, improbably, they realized they were over land. But it wasn’t a smooth landing. Rather, they nosedived the plane into a bog in Ireland. The men were dazed, but elated. They may have crashed, but they had just made history.

They had hoped the press could find out about their landing via wireless radio, but the radio had gone out so early in the flight that they couldn’t inform them of their victory. Instead, they telegraphed the Aero Club. Later, Alcock sent a cable to the Daily Mail about the journey. “The flight has shown that the Atlantic flight is practicable,” he wrote.

It was a monumental feat. Alcock and Brown were front-page news, and their feat pointed to a future in which crossing an ocean was a commonplace affair. After winning the prize money, which was presented by British aviation secretary Winston Churchill, the duo was knighted by George V.

Alcock did not live to enjoy knighthood: He died later in 1919 when the plane he was piloting, another Vickers aircraft, crashed in France. But Brown, who had navigated the flight through such tough conditions, continued flying. During World War II, he worked for the British Home Guard and Royal Air Force. He died a few years after his son, Arthur Brown, was killed in a plane crash.

So what did the navigator think of the pioneering flight that had been such a challenge? Despite the fear, the cold, and the lack of stars by which to navigate, the flight had been a triumph of man and machine. After crash-landing, Alcock and Brown were picked up by wireless radio operators who fed them breakfast and helped them telegraph their success. “This is the best way to cross the Atlantic,” Brown said…after finishing his food.

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Good Read - HL 370 (1)

Hey Mark,

I hope this finds you well and healthy. I still look forward to reading your PCN High Life.

I was changing computers, going through old files and found this file.I was to give this speech to our Golden Wings Pilots. It is a derivative from the presentation I gave to the B-727 Training Dept family in December 2014. I cannot recall giving this speech in 2015, but it does bring back a lot of memories. It may be appropriate for some of the old guys to read and remember. It should be read as if I was at a podium delivering it as a speech. 

 

Stay healthy, stay safe and be blessed. 

 

Tony Papandrea, Capt DAL (Ret)

In God I Trust

Life is Good

 

 

I was asked by George Blosser and Steve Underwood to give a short presentation last December (2014) to a reunion of a fine group of Delta B-727 Training Department people.  From there Julian Black asked me to expand a little on that and address the Delta Golden Wings.  I know the people who have made presentations from this podium before me –and I am honored and humbled to follow them. 

The path to the future is to embrace the past – here we are in the future and I would like to set the clock back. Look at the past.  

I remember coming to work in January 1969. As I look back on my career with Delta which ended in 1996, I am taken back to my first ride on a Delta airplane. It was on a DC-9 jump seat with Rollin Jackson as Captain. We formed a bond that day which has survived all these years. 

How many of us have formed those sort of permanent friendships over the years. Isn’t that why we are here? 

 

I’d like to talk a minute or two to talk about people, things and memories. 

Talk some about Delta – Focus on the Training Dept. 

Talk about airplanes and the 727 Program in particular.    

Take a walk with me in your data bank of memories: 

I might not mention everything in order, or everyone – you fill in the blanks as we go along……………

January 1969 Class A-69. My seniority # was in the mid 1200’s. +

 Let me mention some names:  Charlie Dolson was President in ‘69, followed by WT Beebe and then of course Dave Garrett. I’ll stop there.  Pre Ball was VP, Herb Farnsworth was chief Pilot.   

 The only prop plane on the property was the CV-440. Oh and yes – who could forget the L-100. Nah, hauling cargo would never make any profit. 

They sent me to be an Engineer on the CV-880. How was that for a hot shot Navy Pilot? Then I met Gene Raymond of the FAA.  

The Training Dept was in the basement of Hangar 1 – They had a Link Trainer – I remember Captain Hank Frese was the boss – and  Lee McBride – and real Training Flights.  I remember names like Greer Parramore – Dick Gillette, Sleepy Joe Watson – and a Class act, Charlie Greene; there were so many more. Who do you remember

1.                   2.                       3. 

 

The 70’s brought in a period of growth. Along came the DC-10; L-1011; B-747 – We were proud of our “widget”. 

The B-727 came with the Northeast Merger in 1972 ……..really? a Boeing at Delta??? But it also brought us Pat Malone a recall of our furloughed pilots and a delay in making Captain.   

We had ladies in the cockpit – Joy Walker, Connie Bowlin, later Kathy Jacon broke the barrier and came into the Training Dept. 

1978 brought deregulation and an ATL to London International route. More growth. 

Meanwhile the Training Dept moved out to Greenbriar – remember Curly Vollrath – George Duncan, Buren Knopps – H Averitt was boss followed by John Ellington, – Rocky Bailey was a fixture and – Bill Doonan 727 PM.  Times were good!

’82 Spirit of Delta – we actually bought them an airplane, a B-757! 

Skip to the mid 80’s.   August 1985, 191 crashed in Dallas – sent up a warning flag. We merged with Western in 87 and in  August 1988,  Flt 1141 crashed in Dallas.   I was PM on the B-727 and while driving to work I heard of 1141 on Neil Bortzs’ radio program.   Delta needed help. 

They built OCI. – we were big time - 10 Simulator Bays – and a new org chart for Flight OPS. Harry Alger, Reuben Black at the top. A new Standards Department with a fine Italian gentleman as the leader – Nick Gentile. Flight Training was headed by Jay Whitehead. 

Do you remember:

90 New hires a month  -  Single Visit –  CRM  - The FAA – Dr Longridge from Washington, Bill Dubis,  9400.10 – Data collection – Danny O’Harrow? - 

 The B-727 Program bought the first computer in Flight OPS - $20 each from our 57 instructors. And we were on our way.  Rocky Bailey, Steve Howell – Lee Tysinger – the FIG – Bob Strachan and Jack Volkel opening Juneau - we survived ourselves and the Western Merger – Somehow we integrated those Western Cowboys and our Delta Good Old Boys to turn us into a great airline. 

Shortly after OCII was finished, I – I remember sitting on the lobby stairs giving a presentation to a group of retired Delta Pilots touring our new facility – pilots like Norman Topshe, Dana Jones, Hal Sumner. I thanked them for their legacy. That was 25 years ago – and here we are today.  

Airplanes and pilots:  

Let me read something written by Ernest Hemmingway: 

“You love a lot of things if you live around them. But there isn’t any woman and there isn’t any horse before, nor after, that is as lovely as a great airplane. And men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others, but that is where his heart will forever be.”     In my opinion, he was writing about the B-727 years before it was built but each of you can apply it to your favorite.  

Spoilers in the detent, flaps to 15,  stabilizer set, r&a trim,  airspeed and EPR bugs – and off we go – but wait, I forgot the Pitot Heat -  because someone else did and iced up.  

Remember when anything happened:  “aw crap – protect essential”

Then along came  Pan AM in ‘92 – the true aristocrats of aviation. We inherited some fine people and aviators as we moved toward the millennium. 

Looking back, we integrated all of that into the most professional, safest airline in the world – as it is today. Back in the day 25 years ago, our Line Pilots, the Training Dept and the B-727 Program passed a NAISIP Inspection – with no negative comments. I guess they didn’t believe it the first time for the Training Dept and came back for seconds a year later.  Same result – damn near perfect.            

We Delta Pilots, and its Training Department overcame every challenge thrown at us. Whether it was from management, leadership “across the street” or the 4^th Floor.  We never lost sight of our mission – and in the process have created a lasting brotherhood – and yes, sisterhood. 

That mission always was and still is: 

Service to the Line Pilot held to the highest standards.  

To the Training Department, the B-727 Program and her Instructors, 

I salute you – To the Delta Line Pilot – the finest in the world, 

It is still one hell of a ride!

          By Tony Papandrea

2015

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Good Read - HL 369 (4)

In HL 368, I shared for the 1^st time, a recurring frustrating nightmare I have, when I dream.  Mind you, the Vietnam Vet brother-in-law, we just lost, had some ‘real’ flashback nightmares of which we always felt bad about.  My dreams are of the silly nature and just one of non-accomplishment, you just cannot resolve or show up for work.  In these dreams I just can’t do what I am supposed to do.  I published this silly thing only because I just had one and thought I would bare my soul.  Well, here are a few replies from within our community.   

Hi Mark

 

Just saw your latest.  I retired in 2004 (10 years early) after 25 years with DL and 24 with the Navy to run my own company (and take the retirement). 

I’m afraid these will continue for some time.  My carrier ones have faded and the DL ones are slowly subsiding.  They are just like yours.  Either not making sign in or circling Santiago in the middle of the night waiting for the weather to clear.  You will get used to it and learn to live with it.  Hang in there.

 

Cheers

Mike (767ER)

senior@cyintech.com

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Mark,
Interesting read on your recurring dream. Must be a hazard of the job. Check out mine below.

l have a very similar dream that is one of the only dreams I seem to have occasionally. I am trying to get ready for a trip and nothing seems to work. I can't get my act together and about the time I am ready to go something else pops up and frustrates my efforts.  Can't find my hat, shoes are missing, , where is my flight bag, keep looking at the clock and I am late. About the time I get one problem resolved another pops up and I am never able to get there. I just seem to wander around is somewhat of a fog and am unable to get it all together. It is very frustrating and I guess I finally just give up and never even seem to get going. Guess I finally just give up and there is never an ending that resolves the issues or I wake up and realize that it is just a dream.

Thought you might find it interesting,
Wendell Lewis

wglewis7@bellsouth.net

 

Editor: Wendell, it seems as though we are cursed with the same exact dream frustration.  Circling around like a buffoon not being able to accomplish what is right there before me.  Wendell, now when I occasionally dream of other activity it does not end in frustration.

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A Rare Robin

This unusual airplane comes with an unusual human-interest story attached.

Jay Selman

Updated Mar 5, 2025 10:57 AM PST

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/a-rare-robin/

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Good Read - HL 366 (1)

 Christmas and Winter Time by the fireplace…….reads!!!!!!  Our pilot author’s works to purchase and enjoy.

(If you are a pilot author and do not see you name or work included, it was unintentional.  Email me and I will include in the next issue). 

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Great Books by Our Community Authors

 

Below is a list originally assembled by David Roberts of our community's literary pride and joy.  Many from our group have a story to tell, but only a few become published authors.  Here is a list of our brightest and best.  Please support these efforts by ordering for your library or sharing these great reads with others. 

 

If you have been published and wish to be added or need your site linked here please email mark@pilotcommunication.net:

 

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Ladies and Gentlemen:

This is the NINTH VERSION of a growing list of Delta Pilot Authors,  Books About Delta Air Lines, Inc., and Books by Delta Pilot's Family Members.  Version #8 was dated December 2, 2008. The newest books, those published in (2007 & later), have the copyright date in bold red font.  A Replies & Comment section with additional information about the books and authors is an attachment below the list.  We need biographical information on the authors....please.  When they were hired, and for which airline originally, when they retired if applicable, where they were based, web sites, email addresses for those I don't have, et cetera.

This list is a work in progress and your help is needed to add to these 45 published pilot authors and 6 family member authors. Please send me the names of other Delta Pilots, or their family members, who have authored and published books along with the titles of their books. 

REVIEWS OF THESE BOOKS ARE NEEDED.  PLEASE SEND ME YOURS TO ADD TO THE REVIEW SECTION ATTACHED BELOW.

Many of the members of this email network are serious readers, and we like to know about Delta pilots who have written books. And you should know of other Delta Pilot authors more than anyone else. 

Please send additions, and please make suggestions to improve this list. I will update it periodically.

 

Thanks, Dave

 

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BOOKS BY DELTA PILOT AUTHORS  # 9

 

Abby, Darrell  "Logbook--From Dreams to Airline Captain".     This memoir details life from childhood dreams of flying to a pilot career in airline aviation. It details a military stint, strong faith, flying war stories, aviation humor, leadership, creating a legacy, and a little personal philosophy thrown in. It educates the reader about training, pilot licensing/qualifications, airline seniority, schedule bidding, check rides, and layovers. So kick the tires, light the fires, and turn on the seatbelt sign: we are cleared for takeoff.   Buy here:  https://a.co/d/10r0APl              email:   darrellabby@att.net

Anderson, John Aubrey Black or White, (Broadman and Holman, 2005, 331 pages.)   http://johnaubreyanderson.com/

Anderson, John Aubrey  Abiding Darkness, The Black or White Chronicles Book One (2006) Warner Faith

Anderson, John Aubrey  Book Two Wedgewood Grey (2007)

Anderson, John Aubrey  Book Three And If I Die  (2007)  http://www.johnaubreyanderson.blogspot.com/

Anderson, John Aubrey  Book Four The Cool Woman  (2010)

Barr, James C.  Airborne Weather Radar-A User's Guide  Iowa State University Press(1993)

Bennett, Paul W.  FLYING---A Look Back (1999), Hardback--stories about C&S and Delta. http://isbn.nu/0967421608/price/3.html 

Blizzard, Dick  An Eruption of Decadence (2006), http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~40183.aspx

Brantner, Robert M.  My Year as an Alaskan Bush Pilot (2003) http://www.bobbrantner.coml

Bullock, Ramond H. (WAL)   Airline Piloting (Published by The World press, inc, 1947) 163 pages 

Butcher, D. Allen, (DAL) Sixty Years in the 20th Century, 400 pages.  email abutch4178@aol.com 

Couch, Tony    "WATERCOLOR: You Can Do It!" (1987) "How to" Watercolor instruction book

Couch, Tony    "Tony Couch's Keys to Successful Painting" (1992) Instruction book on design for painters

Cowee, Bruce "Vietnam to Western Airlines" (2013) http://vietnamtowesternairlines.com 

Crum, John  "Unfriendly Skies"  by Capt "X" and Reynolds Dodson (1989)

Diller, Richard "Firefly, A Skyraider's Story of America's Secret War Over Laos" (2013)     http://www.fireflythebook.com 

Dozier, James N. “All Back Two-Thirds”. Copyright 2017. Amazon books

Dozier, James N. “Ensign Pinson Goes To Flight School”. Copyright 2020. Amazon books and Kindle.

Jim Dozier jndozier@gmail.com

Dunn, Mike  Sidewinder (1991) 

Dunn, Mike  Task Force (1992) 

Dunn, Mike  Quicksilver (1993) 

Dunn, Mike  Bridge of No Return (1996) 

El Hai, Jack "Non-stop: A Turbulent History of Northwest Airlines" (2013)   Amazon.com

Fay, Gerald W.   From A-3 to A-10 (1988)

Ferrell, Mallory Hope   Colorful East Broad Top, (1993) by Heimburger House

Ferrell, Mallory Hope   The South Park Line   (2004) 

     (Over 150 Links for "Mallory Hope Ferrell"  at  http://www.google.com)

Gandt, Robert L.  China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats (1991) http://www.gandt.com/ 

Gandt, Robert L.  Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am (1995) 

Gandt, Robert L.  Bogeys and Bandits: The making of a Fighter Pilot (1997) 

Gandt, Robert L.  Fly Low Fly Fast: Inside the Reno Air Races (1999) 

Gandt, Robert L.  With Hostile Intent (2001) 

Gandt, Robert L.  Acts of Vengeance (2002) 

Gandt, Robert L.  Black Star (2003) 

Gandt, Robert L.  Shadows of War (2004)

Gandt, Robert L.  The Killing Skies (2005)

Gandt, Robert L.  Black Star Rising (2007)

Gandt, Robert L.  Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship... (2008)

Garrison, Kevin  Clear Left, I'll Have the Chicken (An Airline Captain Looks at Life) (2006)   http://www.kevincreates.com

Garrison, Kevin  So You're Dead -- A Novice's Guide to Non-Being  (an E-book)

Godfrey, Jo Ann Rosen From Hurricaine Katrina to the Middle East: A True Love Story...With Life Lessons Learned http://www.joanngodfrey.com 

Gravino, Nicholas   "A Pilot's Memoirs-From the Ground Up"  (2008) www.apilotsmemoirsfromthegroundup.com

                             The Adventures of Beppo the Italian Elf (2010)     nicholasgravino@att.net

Gray, Steven R.  Rampant Raider: An A-4 Skyhawk Pilot in Vietnam (2007)

Hall, Gene assorted memoirs - http://pcn.homestead.com/Gene_Hall.html 

Hill, Kathryn  EXPRESS MALICE (Being adapted for a future movie)  www.ExpressMalice.com 

Hoogerwerf, James "Speed, Safety, and Comfort: The Origins of Delta Air Lines"  Former Delta Boeing 767 Captain and aviation historian, James John Hoogerwerf, traces the evolution and growth of one of America's most successful airlines.     Buy here: https://a.co/d/ieLGeuV    hoogerwerfjames@gmail.com

Hopkins, Kendall, et al.  WE PUSHED THE LIMITS – Reflections of Five Old Fighter Pilots (2005)

Hurley, C. D. "REVERIE" A Kaleidoscope of the Prose and Poetry in My Life  (2004)

Hurley, C. D.  POT O' GOLD, Prose, Poetry and A Tale O'thu Sea  (2005)

Hurley, C. D.  Squirrels And Quasars & Stuff (2007)

Ippolito, William  Leaving on a Jet Plane (2002) http://www.leavingonajetplanebook.com/      wippolito1@gmail.com

Jones, Harrison (Bob)  Equal Time Point (2009 by Tate Publishing),  http://www.harrisonjones.org 

   Shadow Flight (2011 by Bluewater Press LLC)   harrisonbooks@numail.org

Kerschner, Bill and Phyllis   Plucky-Lucky Duck's Amazing Adventure,  [Vantage Press, 2007) 

Knott, Ron  Trophies of Heaven (1995) http://www.godsguarantees.com/ 

Knott, Ron  God's Guarantees for Giving (2002) 

Knott, Ron   Testimonies For the Soul (2007) 

Knott, Ron   Supersonic Cowboys (2009)  http://www.ronknott.net/

Koehn II, James J. and Werkema, Mark A. The Flight Before Christmas  (2003)

Lawson, Archie B.  View From the Cockpit:  Looking Up  (2004)  http://www.viewfromthecockpit.com/ 

Lenker, Karl  Final Trumpet  (2008) http://talewindspress.com/ 

Mauldin, Bill  State Troopers of America (2006)   http://www.mauldin.net

McCullough, Kathryn "Kathy"  Anne   Ups and Downs (2016) flying memoir: https://www.amazon.com/Ups-Downs-Kathryn-Anne-McCullough/dp/1939275431   

             contact Kathy captainkathymccullough@gmail.com 

McGinnis, Daryle D.  Stewardess Stories  (2006)

McGinnis, Daryle D. The Skybrokers  (2007)

McGinnis, Daryle D.  A Waterfall in a War (2007) 

McGinnis, Daryle D.  And Then They Had a War  (2008)

 

Morris, Gregory L.   Candlestick Charting Explained (1992,1995)

 

Mudge, Robert W.  Meteorology for Pilots (1945) 

Mudge, Robert W.  Adventures of a Yellow Bird (1969), Hard back. A Northeast Airline History 

 

Norris, Robert  The Barrett Solution (2011) A thriller of love, deceit and a CIA black operation.  http://www.ronorris.com

 

Papadakis, Myron P.  Aircraft Accident Reconstruction and Litigation 1st ed (1996)- 623 pages

Papadakis, Myron P.  Aircraft Accident Reconstruction and Litigation 2nd ed (2000)

Papadakis, Myron P. Aircraft Accident Reconstruction and Litigation 3rd edition (2003) 

Papadakis, Myron P.  4th edition planned 2009 

Papadakis, Myron P.  Civil Trial Practice - Winning Technigues 792 pages (2000)

 

Patterson, Robert 'Buzz'  Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Endangered America's Long-Term National Security (2003) http://www.buzzpatterson.com/ 

Patterson, Robert 'Buzz'  Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats Undermine Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers. and Jeopardize Our National Security (2004) 

Patterson, Robert 'Buzz'  War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy the Military and Lose the War on Terror  (2007)

 

Quilter, Charles J., U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With the I Marine Expeditionary Force in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Washington: Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, History and Museums Division, GPO, (1993).

Quilter, Charles J. and John Chapin, A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531. Washington: Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, History and Museums Division, GPO, (2001).

Rosenkranz, Keith   Vipers In The Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot  (2002)

Ryder, Nicholas G.  Ryder's Standard Geographic Reference, a satellite photo atlas of America (1982)

Schwab, Allen  High Performance IFR Flying (1982)

Severe, Errol    The Last of a Breed. (1997).  

Shettle, M.L. Jr. UNITED STATES NAVAL AIR STATIONS OF WORLD WAR II - Volume 1 Eastern States, Schaertel Publishing, 2000, many photos, 241 pgs. 

Shettle, M.L. Jr. UNITED STATES NAVAL AIR STATIONS OF WORLD WAR II - Volume 2 Western States Schaertel Publishing, 1997, many photos, 284 pgs. 

Shettle, M.L. Jr. UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AIR STATIONS OF WORLD WAR II, self-published, 2001, photos & history of each Marine Corps air station, 22 in all, many photos, 179 pgs. 

Shettle, M.L. Jr.  Georgia's Army Air Fields of WW II -  140 pages, 213 photos.  self-published. (2005)

Solohub, Roman T.  Clear Thinking When Drinking: The Handbook for Responsible Alcohol Consumption (2007)   http://www.thinkingwhendrinking.com/

Stannard, Louis  China Diaries.  (2004)    www.chinadiaries.com

Sternstein, Ed   From Takeoff to Landing (Everything You Want to Know About Flying but Have No One to Ask) (1991)  

Stevens, Robert W.  Alaskan Aviation History (Vol. I: 1897-1928)

Stevens, Robert W.  Alaskan Aviation History (Vol. II: 1929-1930)

Taylor, Steve - Wheels Up,  All stories are the real deal.  Good read.  Released 9-2-14  Web Home Page,  Amazon Purchase page,     email Steve

Trahan, Mike The Gift,   and The Gift Part Two - The Air Force Years (2013)  Promo Video     Amazon purchase page

Tripp, Bob   Last Clear Chance  (2008)  http://www.bobtripp.com/

Vander Ende, Dirk   Sting of Justice  by Dirk Gerrit (pen name) (2005)

Vihlen, Hugo  April Fool:  Or, How I sailed from Casablanca to Florida in a six-foot boat  (1971)

Vihlen, Hugo  The Stormy Voyage of Father's Day (1997)

Werkema, Mark A.  On Fulcrum's Wings  (2000)

Werkema, Mark A. and Koehn II, James J. The Flight Before Christmas  (2003)

Whitcomb, Darrel D.   The Rescue of Bat 21  (1998)

Whitcomb, Darrel D. Combat Search and Rescue in Desert Storm (2006)

Whitten, Louis G. Whitten's Flying Fables: How Not to Fly or How to Crash or How Not to Crash (1994). 

 

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BOOKS ABOUT DELTA AIR LINES, INC.

 

Delta:  The History of an Airline, by W. David Lewis and Wesley Phillips Newton (1979)  A pictorial history.

Delta Air Lines:  Debunking the Myth, by Sidney F. Davis  (1989)

DELTA:  The Illustrated History of A Major U.S. Airline And The People Who Made It, by R.E.G. Davies (1990)

Delta Air Lines, by Geoff Jones (1998)

Delta Air Lines:  75 Years of Airline Excellence (Images of America), by Geoff Jones (2003)

Airline Without A Pilot - Leadership Lessons / Inside Story of Delta's Success, Decline and Bankruptcy, by Harry L. Nolan (2005)

 

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BOOKS BY DELTA PILOT'S FAMILY MEMBERS 

 

Arndt, Joan  --  Wife of retired Delta Captain Roger Arndt

         Italian Lessons (2008)

Crawford, James -- Grandson of retired Delta Captain Norman Topshe

        The Age of the Aviator (2006)   www.crawfordbooks.com.

Gardner, Marty -- Wife of retired Delta Captain Jim Gardner

         Loving Wings (2009) http://www.eloquentbooks.com/LovingWings

Shreve, Anita -- Daughter of the late retired NE/DL Captain Richard H. Shreve. http://www.anitashreve.com/ 

Fiction (List from Wikipedia)

•Past the Island, Drifting (1975) 

•Eden Close (1989) 

•Strange Fits of Passion (1991) 

•Where or When (1993) 

•Resistance (1995) 

•The Weight of Water (1997) (Shortlisted for the 1998 Orange Prize) 

•The Pilot's Wife (1998) 

•Fortune's Rocks (1999) 

•The Last Time They Met (2001) 

•Sea Glass (2002) 

•All He Ever Wanted (2003) 

•Light on Snow (2004) 

•A Wedding In December (2005) 

•Body Surfing (2007) 

•Testimony (2008) 

•A Change in Altitude (2009) 

 

Nonfiction

•Remaking Motherhood: How Working Mothers are Shaping Our Children's Future (1987) 

•Women Together, Women Alone: The Legacy of the Consciousness-Raising Movement (1989) 

Walsh, Darlene -- Wife of retired Delta Captain J. D. 'Denny' Walsh

         Roswell, A Pictorial History   (1985)  [about Roswell, Georgia]

        Providence - Selected Correspondence of George Hull Camp (2008)

 

Webster, Anne -- wife of retired Delta Captain Larry Webster.

        A History of Nursing, released by Kennesaw State University Press (2008) http:///www.ahistoryofnursing.com

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