In the Safety of His Wings: A Test Pilots Adventures

Beginning with a harrowing, record setting flight in Howard Hughes' final aircraft design, the author relates his life as a test pilot. He couples episodes bordering on catastrophic to comical; rising from a fatherless street kid to become Chief Experimental Test Pilot and Supervisor of Flight Test for a major U.S. turbine engine company. Escapades of military flight school, fighters, bombers, transports, helicopters, air/sea rescue, marriage, barnstorming, test operations in dozens of aircraft models from Ephesus to Australia … and 295 failures to the ground, land him an early understanding that spiritual matters are of major importance in survival.