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Secrets From The Cockpit - Pilots Behaving Badly And Other Flying Stories (Paperback) Loot Price: R224
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Secrets From The Cockpit - Pilots Behaving Badly And Other Flying Stories (Paperback)

Robert Schapiro

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Robert Schapiro always wanted to fly. Challenging anti-Semitic bullying, mockery and fierce rivalry, he realised his dream by earning his wings in the South African Air Force and going on to command C-47 Dakotas in the Border War.

He joined South African Airways (SAA) in 1979, soon learning it was a time when SAA crews were dominated by the ‘Royal Family’ – captains who thought themselves above the rules and who spent time overseas on drinking binges or coaxing air hostesses to be their ‘airline wives’.

When sanctions forced SAA to cut back on its routes, he was seconded to Japan’s Nippon Cargo Airlines, routinely flying between New York and Tokyo, and grappling with often-hilarious cultural misunderstandings as he adapted to a Japanese style of operations.

Schapiro is disarmingly frank about life as an international pilot. He divulges near misses, emergency landings, navigation errors, passenger shenanigans (seat sex, anyone?), how pilots control rowdy travellers and absorbing detail about the technique of flying different aircraft types. Uplifting and humorous, his memoir offers a rare slice of aviation history.

General

Imprint: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: June 2021
Authors: Robert Schapiro
Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-928248-14-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Aerospace & aviation technology > Aviation skills / piloting
Books > Biography > General
Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography
LSN: 1-928248-14-4
Barcode: 9781928248149

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