Dancing the Skies and Falling with Style
Author | : CALVIN. SHIELDS |
Publisher | : Vanguard Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-08-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781800160798 |
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At the dawn of the Jet Age, flying was romantic, exciting and exclusive. Drab post-war austerity surrendered to a less restrained, less politically correct, more vibrant era. Britain prospered with a newfound sense of optimism, business flourished and airlines expanded. Colin Fairdale, an insecure public schoolboy, stumbles into a career as a pilot with BOAC at the end of the Swinging Sixties. He is a boy in a man's world of hard-drinking, boorish wartime pilots and a naïf among wild, carousing cabin crew . The high-pressure, high-octane lifestyle plays a heavy toll on his relationships as he blunders through life. The terrorist attacks on New York heralded a more serious, rigid age. Everything changed, forever...