The Flight Level Chronicles

Buckle your seat belt and take off with a Maine-based husband-and-wife air charter team, as they fly nice people to interesting places.In this light-hearted, breezy collection of feel-good aviation stories, you'll unlock the secret of a mysterious zigzagging light in the night sky and understand why flying with dogs can test a pilot's skill. In addition, you'll visit special places like Princeton, Maine and discover why pilots should never climb trees. Enjoy these and many other pleasant flying tales. Step aboard and experience a unique perspective on life at the flight levels. Enjoy the ride!Includes bonus chapter, Reflections From a Little Yellow Airplane, an aviation short story.

The loss of a loved one is a traumatic event. If the loved one is your child, the emotions are further tested. Imagine having to cope with all of these feelings when also adding into the mix the challenges when the death happens on the other side of the planet in a country with a different language and culture. This is what one man had to face when his son died in the world's largest single plane crash. Peter Mathews lost his son Kimble, who was travelling with his fiancée Masako Nishiguchi, in the flight JL123 crash on 12 August 1985. From the time of the first phone call through his trip to Japan until his return back to the UK, Peter kept a diary and took photographs. Using these materials as a basis, this book provides an amazing insight into the events of August 1985. The book also includes details of the experiences and lessons learned by the JAL employee, Keith Haines, who was assigned to accompany the Mathews family to Japan. Their story is as relevant today as it was in 1985.

All of aviation's dangerous, exciting, and most courageous moments are featured within this stunning compendium on flight. Packed with stories of heroic and innovative pioneers, fascinating profiles of remarkable planes from Spitfires to space shuttles, and how-to instructions for making everything from origami helicopters to bottle rockets—all accompanied by sensational photographs, illustrations, and diagrams—Cleared for Takeoff promises to astonish, entertain, and fire the imaginations of everyone with their head in the clouds.