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FIFTY YEARS OF FLYING FUN: FROM THE HUNTER TO THE SPITFIRE AND BACK AGAIN

by Rod Dean

Published by Grub Street. 1st. 2015

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Over fifty continuous years of flying through the memoir of a man who lived through it all. Pictorial glazed boards. B/w and colour photos. 220 pages including index.

ISBN: 9781909808270
Stock no. 1816358

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Contents

  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • Chapter One - In the Beginning
  • Chapter Two - Into the Air Force
  • Chapter Three - 'Lofty' Lance
  • Chapter Four - Fast Jets - But Only Just
  • Chapter Five - The Hunter jet
  • Chapter Six - 43 Squadron - 'The Fighting Cocks'
  • Chapter Seven - Three Visits to the Station Commander's Office
  • Chapter Eight - You Can't Do It Unless You Have Done It Before (or The Ferry - Part One)
  • Chapter Nine - The Ferry Part Two
  • Chapter Ten - Back Home
  • Chapter Eleven - RAF Muharraq
  • Chapter Twelve - The World's Best Vanishing Trick
  • Chapter Thirteen - Back Home Yet Again
  • Chapter Fourteen - A Change of Venue
  • Chapter Fifteen - Off to 'Der Fuhrer Land'
  • Chapter Sixteen - West Wales
  • Chapter Seventeen - A Final Visit to the Middle East - Oman
  • Chapter Eighteen - Display Flying - The Early Days
  • Chapter Nineteen - The Spitfire at Last!
  • Chapter Twenty - Back to the Jets
  • Appendix
  • Index

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