Rescue Pilot

By (author): "Dan McKinnon"
Rescue Pilot
ISBN0071391193
ISBN130639785336372
AsinRescue Pilot
Original titleRescue Pilot : Life-Saving At-Sea Navy Helicopter Missions
Naval aviator Dan McKinnon recounts the dramatic at-sea rescues conducted during his anything-but-peaceful peacetime service in the US Navy from 1956-1959. Rescue accounts include an ejected test-pilot; a crew member washed overboard their air carrier flight deck; and an amazing mission in the Red China Seas. The long shipboard assignments common to Navy history of time period are also portrayed along with details of flight training and survival training.