A Compelling Read or the Perfect Gift... What it's like to fly
combat jets down between the trees. Whether you have ever flown a
jet, or just wished to do so, and whether you served in Vietnam or
just read about it, you will be riveted by this fast-paced and
vivid account in prose and poetry that tells the story of a special
breed of men. These were the hand-picked few who led death-defying
lives as F-100 Super Sabre pilots. "Songs" tells the story of the
"Hun Drivers" in war and peace, who flew low and fast between the
trees with troops under fire day or night, or spent weeks away from
home and family on nuclear alert, hoping that the red phone that
signaled WW III would never ring. Their plane was called "The Widow
Maker" for good reason, as you soon learn. Songs From A Distant
Cockpit puts you in the cockpit and in among these single-seat,
single-engine fighter pilots as they trained in the "most dangerous
plane ever built." It brings you along as they learned how to fly
it, and how to survive in it, and the sudden risks and terrors that
they faced often as they flew it. If you've ever wondered "What
it's like to fly a close-air-support fighter bombers" in combat in
Vietnam, or on other missions that pushed the ragged edges of the
flight envelope, with Death an all-too-frequent wingman, then
you'll have a vivid understanding when you read "Songs." This
highly acclaimed book uses on-the-scene, at-the-time prose and
poetry in a blend said by historians to be unique in books about
combat in its ability to capture the feelings and experiences
shared by those who took pride in their ability to fly "the Hun."
These men were few in number, because, with rare exception, only
top pilots could become F-100 Super Sabre pilots. Many were the
sights they saw, the things they felt, and the terrors that visited
so suddenly, when Death came calling but left again as suddenly,
without a "customer." What they, and the author, have most in
common to this day is that they all enjoyed their "Songs" in
distant cockpits, high above, or down so low, so fast, so far away,
that only God could find them. Men and women from all walks of life
are saying, "I couldn't put it down," and some add that parts of it
"brought them to tears." So, satisfy your yearnings to fly because
now it's time for YOU to get in that fighter cockpit and go flying
through the bullets and down between the trees "
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