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In Love With Flying - Ken Ford
Hello pilots. My father, who spent 50 years flying gliders and light
aircraft, has written and self-published a nice little book about his years in the air. He's disappointed with the anemic sales of the book at the moment and i thought that maybe the soaring community at large might know of small airport shops which might be interested in carrying a book or two. If anyone has any information, please pass it along to me at . The book is available at http://www.hbarpress.com , through Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or can be ordered through your local bookstore. ------------------------------------------------------ Here's the back-cover blurb about the book: Flying With and Without an Engine In this memoir, Kenneth Ford provides tales from his own fifty years of flying light airplanes and gliders, and he profiles various aviators he has met along the way, people who impressed him with their passion for flying and who brought a special style to their love affair with flying. This book is for anyone of any age who is thinking about becoming a pilot, or is already one, or who just appreciates the romance of the air. It's more than a collection of anecdotes. Ford is a teacher, and here you will learn, in non-technical language, about the kinds of lift that keep gliders aloft, the differences between tricycle-gear planes and "tail draggers," the art of landing in a crosswind, how pilots get from A to B, and more. About the Author Kenneth Ford is a retired physicist who, for fifty years, pursued flying as an avocation (and for practical ends). By his count, he has flown 55 different models of aircraft, some with one engine, some with none; carried nearly 700 different people as passengers; and landed in more than 450 different places, from New York La Guardia and Chicago O'Hare to dirt strips and a few pastures in the west. His other books include The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone (Harvard University Press, 2004). ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for reading this, and my apologies for the blatant marketing aspect of this message, but i do think that it's a good book. People just need to know about it. Adam Ford http://www.hbarpress.com |
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