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Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying

2018-12-16 分类：Piloting & Flight Instruction

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Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying

Author(s): W. Scott Olsen (Author)

  • Publisher: Bison Books
  • Publication Date: April 1, 2008
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 246 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0803211449
  • ISBN-13: 9780803211445

Book Description

Hard Air is a book about extraordinary flying—flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad—a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to places where no one should be flying: into hurricanes, firestorms, and deep, engine-killing cold. As a pilot himself, W. Scott Olsen brings to these tales a sense of wonder and adventure as well as a genuine, firsthand understanding of the dangers and rigors of such flying.

 

In prose that deftly conveys the grit and grace of his subjects, Olsen transports us into the air with hurricane hunters who fly into the planet’s fiercest storms, with helicopter pilots racing emergency patients to clinics, with Canadian pilots who fly supplies to the Arctic, and with heavy air tanker pilots who drop water and slurry on remote wildfires. Their stories afford a rare look into the working lives of pilots whose methods are extreme and missions are simple: get there, do the job, and get out alive.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Seasoned pilot and aviation writer Olsen offers portraits of four kinds of peacetime flying that aren’t too well known to the public but put aircraft and pilots at the kind of risk commonly associated with combat. One kind involves flying dog teams into remote portions of the Arctic, landing on icecaps for exploration and rescue. Then there is helicopter air-ambulance work, moving critical-condition patients across the upper Great Plains. There is hurricane hunting, whose practitioners flew C-130s to get close looks at Katrina and Rita, among others. Finally, aerial firefighting drops borate solutions and water from frequently aging aircraft, flying low and slow and fighting updrafts and rugged terrain as the planes’ centers of gravity rapidly change. It’s hard to imagine a more gripping book for aviation buffs than Olsen’s depiction of some of the hairier aspects of service networks usually taken for granted and seldom properly noticed by the media. –Roland Green

Review

“Hard Air is an exceptional read, and a rare piece of work, as much sheer artistry as deep exploration of flight. Olsen is a skillful writer, and it shows here, start to stop.”—William Langewiesche, author of Inside the Sky Published On: 2007-03-30

“His narrative is reminiscent in tone of Beryl Markham’s early African aviation adventures chronicled in West with the Night. . . . Olsen . . . does a good job of capturing, in a journalistic interview style, the experiences of the men and women who routinely fly these adventurous missions. The stories are good enough to inspire future pilots.”—Sara Tompson, Library Journal
Published On: 2008-03-01

“It’s hard to imagine a more gripping book for aviation buffs than Olsen’s depiction of some of the hairier aspects of service networks usually taken for granted and seldom properly noticed by the media.”—Roland Green, Booklist
Published On: 2008-03-15

“Never exploiting danger and natural drama for their own sakes, [Scott Olsen] writes in an appreciative and matter-of-fact style that will leave an unforgettable impression upon ground-bound readers and veteran pilates alike.”—Raymond Puffer, Kliatt

Published On: 2008-07-10

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