Click here to read a small section from THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER MARKER If you purchased from me "The Airman's Sky Is Not The Blue," I thank you. In the last few pages of that book are some words to the effect that my first book, Thirty Five Years At The OM is no longer available. Such is no longer the case. A while back a friend had his own "prized" copy of this first book. He wished for understanding friends to also have a copy. He broke the spine of his book and had a copy master made. The result is that two of the smaller book's pages may be copied onto one 8 1/2 x 11 size page. He has sent me the masters. I can have the book copied as mentioned above. I am not trying to make a buck. At this phase of my life it is far more important for me to share what I know to have been an interesting career. Not much has been written about this era from the cockpit viewpoint. Here is a brief outline on the book's contents: - Why the open biplane pilot loved his airplane. What today's airman is missing. - Up a lovely winding Adirondack creek twice a day, taxiing slowly with my seaplane. - The never forgotten impacts of first solo. - A couple of poems that say a lot about early aviation days and the flying people. - Landing on the side of a hill for a dozen eggs. - Private pilot's flight test back in the 1930s. - A sad end to a lovely airplane and why I later became determined to learn something about aircraft control in cloud, all by myself. - "And there I was with a g'damned kid !" - What makes some airmen something special. - An entire chapter on just why the airman's sky is not the blue. - Two sparkling new Waco trainers ferried from the factory in the dead of winter. - A square loop? - "Hey Mac, I need a raise !!" - A 707 plunge in the black of night over the North Atlantic as flight engineer straddles the pedestal and hand cranks a stalled stabilizer drive. - A 747's excruciating hijacking then blow up at Cairo. - "We lost number 3!!" Answer. "Well get it going again !!" Answer. "I mean it fell off !!" The book as copied is completely readable. Everything is there. Many copies have been made from the copy masters. The cost is $17.50 including shipping and handling. Should this be of interest, please advise and I will have a copy run off for you. Please be aware that some of this first book was swiped for the second one. I asked the author if he cared. He replied, "Hell no. Help yourself!" Holland Redfield To Order Click Here Holland L. Redfield P.O. Box 941 Cutchogue, NY 11935-0941 |