Hard Air: Adventures from the Edge of Flying

by W. Scott Olsen

Book Overview

Hard Air is a book about extraordinary flying--flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad--a book about rescue missions and long, lonely flights to gather urgently needed information, about flights to places where no one should be flying: into hurricanes, firestorms, and deep, engine-killing cold. As a pilot himself, W. Scott Olsen brings to these tales a sense of wonder and adventure as well as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803211449
• ISBN13: 9780803211445
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"