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Highways in the Sky
Table of Contents With Links to Sample Stories
  • Prologue
  • A License to Learn

Beginnings

  • A Young Boy's Dream
  • First Flying Lesson
  • Sounds of Silence - Number One
  • Blowing in the Wind
  • First Supervised Solo
  • Warrant Officer Flight Training
  • Hovering
  • Learning to Talk
  • First Supervised Solo - Helicopter
  • A Mixed Bag - Flying Airplanes Again
  • Crosswind Landings at Night
  • Cross Country

The Vietnam Experience

  • Dustoffs at Night
  • Two of Everything
  • Attack on Tieu Can Base Camp
  • Bullfrogs and Runways
  • VC Cousin
  • Keeping a Mohawk Company
  • Night Hoist from a River Boat
  • Sandy Pilot Down
  • Last Mission

Fort Bragg

  • Gliders
  • The M.A.S.T. Mission
  • Sunday Morning on the Haw River
  • Mountain Retreat
  • Becoming an Instrument Pilot
  • Civilian Ratings
  • Crossing the Smoky Mountains VFR
  • First Trip to Walter Reed
  • First UFO Sighting
  • Cross Country Challenges
  • Maintenance Officer
  • Carrier Qualification
  • Worst M.A.S.T. Mission
  • Instructor Pilot Asking Directions
  • Long Range Ferry Trip
  • Foggy Cross Country
  • Busting a Check Ride
  • To Everything There is a Season
  • Nap-of-the-Earth Training
  • Civilian Flight Instructor 

Hometown Pilot

  • The Luscombe
  • The Humbler
  • Jane's Crosswind Landings
  • Three Military Pilots in the Soup
  • Sixville
  • Livestock Navigation
  • Professors to Meridian
  • Fire Patrol
  • Demonstrated Crosswind Component
  • Cropdusting Fighter Pilots
  • No Step for a Stepper
  • LOHs to North Carolina
  • Another Taildragger
  • Calling Flight Service
  • Airborne and Now What?
  • Second UFO 

Corporate Pilot

  • Flying Computer Repairman
  • Multi-Engine Pilot
  • The Perfect Instrument Flight
  • Southern Pilot in the North Country
  • Lonely Cockpit
  • Night IFR Single Engine Failure
  • Green Clouds Over Gregg County
  • We're Going Where He's Going
  • Running the Gauntlet
  • Ice is Where You Find It
  • The Grand Canyon and the Rockies
  • Skimming Along
  • Pressurized
  • The Flight to Remember 

Another Day, Another Company

  • 2500', No Lights, at Night
  • 2,999 Feet of a 3,000 Foot Runway
  • Total Electrical Failure
  • A Closer Look at Rainbows 

Resurrection

  • Life at Small Airports
  • New York City
  • ATC Confidence Builder--NOT!
  • Partial Panel
  • Engine Failure - This Time I had a Spare
  • For Now There's Flight Simulator 
      
     
  
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