Pilot Your Own Rescue Helicopter

Author : John Funnell
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143770060

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Rescue Pilot by John Funnell Pdf

The daring adventures of a New Zealand search and rescue pilot. 'Somewhere, up ahead, a person is bleeding, but you have to put that out of your mind. Your job is negotiating with time and space. You have your clock, that person has their own, and in the end, whether the rate at which your clock is clicking matches theirs is out of your control.' John Funnell is one of New Zealand's longest serving search and rescue pilots. Often referred to as a 'search and rescue daredevil', John has just retired after an incredible 49 years flying search and rescue helicopters. He is perhaps best-known for the 800-kilometre mission to save a scientist attacked by a shark on the remote sub-Antarctic Campbell Island, when he set off into the night knowing the distance was twice that of the helicopter's normal fuel range. Clocking an incredible 19,000 hours of flight time, John is a hero to hundreds of victims all over New Zealand. What's more, he's a natural-born story-teller, and his stories in Rescue Pilot are utterly gripping.

Author : Beckie Williams
Publisher : Tide Mill Press
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Toy and movable books
ISBN : 1846661781

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Pilot Your Own Rescue Helicopter by Beckie Williams Pdf

Children will love 'playing pilot' with this magnetic wand book. Follow the rhyming story and manoeuvre the magnetic helicopter through eleven exciting scenes. A fun way to improve hand-eye coordination skills and encourage imaginative play.

Author : Jerry Grayson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472917966

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Rescue Pilot by Jerry Grayson Pdf

Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously ill crewman from the deck of a nuclear-armed submarine that is playing a cat-and-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has lived a life of unparalleled excitement and adventure. His finest hour came during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Race of 1979 in which 25 yachts were lost. When a catastrophic storm enveloped the competitors he and his crew pushed their Wessex helicopter to its absolute limits and put their own lives at risk, flying into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with Her Majesty the Queen was the result. Being a Rescue Pilot is a fast-paced career because there is no choice. Lives are at stake and pilots must move and think fast. Jerry Grayson's inside view of this heroic service is as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly told, frequently funny but also very poignant, Jerry's story is not an account of just one man's deeds, it is a salute to all the men and women he worked with who were able to turn tragedies into triumphs. Includes a Foreword by HRH The Duke of York, Prince Andrew, Commodore-in-Chief of the Fleet Air Arm.

Author : Dan McKinnon
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Helicopter pilots
ISBN : 0071391193

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Rescue Pilot by Dan McKinnon Pdf

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.

Author : J. William Turner
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608607952

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Blades the Autobiography of a Rescue-Helicopter Pilot by J. William Turner Pdf

This four-part novel follows the life of a teenage boy over five years, taking him from Darwin, in Australia's tropical north, to California's wilderness. In "Street Kid," we meet 12-year-old Julian Moreland and his widowed father, Craig, a military helicopter pilot. Craig's decision to retire from the army and accept employment south in Melbourne as a civilian pilot turns to tragedy. Julian finds himself alone and homeless, until he saves the life of a baby girl and is taken in by her wealthy family. At age 17, and newly qualified as a helicopter pilot, Julian saves the lives of three more children, including two American boys lost in the mountains of southeastern Australia, in "High Country." He also meets the love of his life, Alison, the missing boys' sister. Invited to visit Los Angeles by the parents of the rescued boys, Julian finds himself flying helicopter missions during a wildfire emergency in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, saving even more lives. Meanwhile, love continues to blossom between him and Alison, his American sweetheart, in "California Dreaming." When Julian returns to Australia, his world begins to fall apart, as the traumas of his past catch up with him. It is only after a serious act of violence against a close friend, that Julian starts the long road back to controlling his life in "Aftermath."

Author : Edward L. Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684425840

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Heart of the Storm by Edward L. Fleming Pdf

From the "perfect storm" to the South Pole, this stirring true-life adventure story describes the 30-year helicopter-rescue career of Colonel Edward Fleming--a period in which he was responsible for saving 293 people.

Author : Beck Weathers,Stephen G. Michaud
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780375505881

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Left for Dead by Beck Weathers,Stephen G. Michaud Pdf

With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal “I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.” In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him. Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, and caked with ice—walking down the mountain. In this powerful memoir, now featuring a new Preface, Weathers describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed eight climbers, but the journey of his life. This is the story of a man’s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since; of survival in the face of certain death, the reclaiming of a family and a life; and of the most extraordinary adventure of all: finding the courage to say yes when life offers us a second chance. Praise for Left for Dead “Riveting . . . [a] remarkable survival story . . . Left for Dead takes a long, critical look at climbing: Weathers is particularly candid about how the demanding sport altered and strained his relationships.”—USA Today “Ultimately, this engrossing tale depicts the difficulty of a man’s struggle to reform his life.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Airplane crash survival
ISBN : SRLF:D0002453082

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Helicopter Rescue Sense by United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Pdf

Author : John Funnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525230018

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Rescue Pilot by John Funnell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000090286331

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Approach by Anonim Pdf

The naval aviation safety review.

Author : George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips
Publisher : Zenith Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0760323925

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Leave No Man Behind by George Galdorisi,Thomas Phillips Pdf

The history of a near-century of combat search and rescue, with an account of how the discipline was created and how it is administered—or neglected—today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : NWU:35556031387731

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United States Coast Pilot 6 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Alaska
ISBN : UCR:31210017980556

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United States Coast Pilot by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dave Greenberg
Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143771678

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Emergency Response by Dave Greenberg Pdf

Stories from a life spent in the emergency services - true tales of rescue and adventure. When Dave Greenberg was just 13 years old, he saved a life for the first time, using CPR. He already knew that he wanted to spend his life helping others in times of crisis, and that harrowing event on a city footpath only confirmed this desire. He went on to spend 25 years working with Life Flight – the Westpac Rescue Helicopter service in Wellington, New Zealand, taking part in many daring rescues on land and at sea, often taking the role of ‘the dope on a rope’ – their own term for the rescuer who dangles from a winch over stormy seas trying to pluck people from heaving ship decks or from the ferocious waves. These are his stories.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : UOM:39015092889461

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United States Coast Pilot 3 by Anonim Pdf