Before Takeoff

Two teens meet and fall in love during a layover-gone-wrong at the Atlanta airport in this thrilling new novel from the author of Let's Get Lost! James and Michelle find themselves in the Atlanta airport on a layover. They couldn't be more different, but seemingly interminable delays draw them both to a mysterious flashing green light—and each other. Where James is passive, Michelle is anything but. And she quickly discovers that the flashing green light is actually . . . a button. Which she presses. Which may or may not unwittingly break the rules of the universe—at least as those rules apply to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. Before they can figure up from down, strange, impossible things start happening: snowstorms form inside the B terminal, jungles sprout up in the C terminal, and earthquakes split the ground apart in between. And no matter how hard they try, it seems no one can find a way in or out of the airport. James and Michelle team up to find their families and either escape the airport or put an end to its chaos—before it's too late.

These are MEMOIRS OF A GREAT AVIATION CAREER presented as a life flight adventure. Each chapter is a series of interesting, informative, and easy reading, short stories. Many are airborne adventures from which pilots may learn from the authors mistakes as well as his many achievements. The Author John Hull is a depression reared, color-blind, high school dropout who beat the odds by diligently pursuing a career as a pilot and mechanic. He worked concurrently as an A&P mechanic with inspection authorization, a shop foreman, a flight instructor, air taxi pilot and chief pilot. He was an FAA Designated Pilot Examiner and Designated Aircraft maintenance Inspector. John became the general manager of an FAA approved flight school before reaching his goal as a General Aviation Fixed Base Operator. He then worked as an FAA Airworthiness Inspector and climbed the FAA career ladder of success to become a highly awarded San Diego FAA Flight Standards District Office Manager. John is now successfully pursuing a career as a Freelance Aviation Writer. Many of his adventures have been published in AOPA PILOT, CUSTOM PLANES, FLYING, PRIVATE PILOT, AND WOMAN PILOT Magazines, and PACIFIC FLYER Aviation News. Here are sample excerpts from the book PREFACE and TWO STORIES.