WINGS OVER PERSIA provides a firsthand account of intrigue and
adventure of an American pilot flying in Iran, during the
revolution which overthrew the Shah and installed Ayatollah
Khomeini as Iran's Islamic dictator.
Lou Martin was an air force pilot for 22 years and a captain for
Japan airlines from 1970 to 1975, before joining a small cadre of
foreign pilots in Iran hired to fly a variety of aircraft
throughout the Middle East.
His passengers ranged from family members of the late Shah of Iran
to high-ranking Iranian government officials, and oil field
roughnecks. His observations relating to these flights are outlined
in thrilling chapter after chapter. He invites the reader to
mentally share his cockpit during these exciting flights.
Captain Martin was living and working in Iran during the
disturbing days of 1978 when Islamic hard-liners rioted in the
streets of Tehran demanding the overthrow of the Shah.
The tempo of the revolution increased to the point where thousands
of demonstrators were killed by the Shah's army forcing him and his
family to flee to Egypt. His abdication allowed the firebrand
leader Ayatollah Khomeini to become Iran's despotic leader, and
form a ruthless fundamentalist Islamic government. Several of
Captain Martin's friends and colleagues were summarily tried and
executed by the Islamic revolutionary guards.
During the peak of the revolution a personal friend was stabbed to
death by unknown assailants, and fearing for his own life he
hurriedly left Iran. His exodus forced him to abandon thousands of
dollars of unpaid salary, a Volkswagen and other personal property.
In the spring of 1979 he was prepared to return to Iran in an
attempt to recover lost property, but an extraordinarily lucky
event in Rome, Italy, convinced him that returning to Iran would
very likely expose him to arrest and confinement. Faced with this
dismal probability he returned to the United States to pursue a
safer and less exciting life.
"Congratulations on being the 2004 recipient of the Minnesota
Aviation Hall of Fame's Best Aviation writing by a Minnesotan We
enjoyed your exciting personal account of your days flying as a
captain for an air charter company in Iran. Your book was exciting
and personal, definitely the type of aviation writing the MAHOF
wishes to honor and encourage with its annual award."
Duane Jacobson - Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame
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