Yardarm and Cockpit
David D. Allyn has led a life that others can only dream about. Adventurer, traveler, sailor, aviator, explorer, and big-hearted bon vivant, Dave came of age while sailing around the world on the last voyage of the tall Brigantine Yankee with all the accompanying tales of drudgery and heat punctuated by terrifying gales, tension amongst the crew members, and a too-close encounter with a one-thousand-pound bull shark. Then there was the time he survived emergency surgery on the shipas kitchen table. An adrenaline junky, Dave also flew planes back in the days when you needed a helmet and goggles to do it. Aviators and historians will delight in his vivid accounts of flying vintage aircrafta139 different types in all, as well as his stories of collecting a large fleet of famous old aircraft and establishing a fixed base operationaitas still there: Dolphin Aviation in Sarasota, Floridaaand a museum. These stories arenat just about boats and aircraft, however, theyare also about people and pristine landscapes. Youall visit Tahiti, Bimini, and the Galapagos before tourists got there. Youall meet cowboys, mechanics, skydivers, artists, deep-sea divers with a death wish, crazy drunks, and a host of other characters who knew how to live life large. A life-affirming, swaggering book, Yardarm and Cockpit is one wild ride without a seat belt.The school offered two aircraft to get that rating in: a 1957 Cessna 310 or a 1938 Lockheed 12A. It was a slam dunk. Round ... Lonnie handed me the flight manual and performance charts and said, aYou got tonight. I want you to know thisanbsp;...
| Title | : | Yardarm and Cockpit |
| Author | : | David D. Allyn |
| Publisher | : | Sunstone Press - 2014-04-01 |
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