"The book is great. It's going to be of tremendous interest to all people who want to know more about this aspect of military flight."--Bill Stuyvesant, legendary hero pilot * Experience the life and death drama of high seas helicopter rescue missions--written by a pilot who participated in the action and who knows how to keep the reader spellbound * Thrill-a-minute, fast-paced military adventure tales revolving around the real-life at-sea air rescues the author participated in from 1956-1959 * Exciting rescue accounts include an ejected test pilot, a crew member washed overboard, and a thrilling mission in the Red China Seas

Rescue Pilot : Life-Saving At-Sea Navy Helicopter Missions

Engineering & Transportation

McKinnon, Dan.

Transportation

McGraw-Hill Professional

Recent events have forced everyone to be more aware of safety during airline flights. But being aware isn't enough . . . there are dozens of easy-to-follow practical actions you as a passenger should follow in order to minimize your risk -- and perhaps save your life -- in the event of a hijacking or other terrorist activity. In Safe Air Travel Companion, Dan McKinnon, an expert in commercial travel and survival, calmly, clearly, and rationally spells them out. In this one-of-a-kind resource, learn smart travel strategies for business and personal travel for yourself as well as your family.

Safe Air Travel Companion

McGraw=Hill

Recounts the story of Iraq's attempts to develop nuclear weapons, and how the project was destroyed in 1981 by Israeli bombers

Bullseye Iraq

History

Middle East

Berkley_Pub Group

Words of honor

House of Hits

Discusses the goals of terrorists, tells how to avoid being on a hijacked flight, looks at airport security, and tells how to act during a hijacking or rescue attempt

Everything You Need to Know Before You're Hijacked

Travel

Travel Writing

Bullseye One Reactor

McKinnon, Clinton Dan

Africa

In this collection of original short fiction, memoirs and vignettes composed over a span of fifteen years, Dan McKinnon echoes and reexamines the truth of God's love and ever-presence. His language is refreshingly tight and rhythmic: [A]ll gospel tracts are written by a small group of aged, white, legalistic and bespectacled males (a fair description of me), who seldom venture beyond the small, dark cells where they live and toil. (They leave their cells a few times a week to attend church, buy fresh writing supplies, and replace the few, select sections of the Bibles they've worn out.) Memoirs are lucid, engaging and deeply affecting. Vignettes are taut, evocative and surprisingly varied in structure and voice. Short fiction covers the spectrum from allegory (His son was much more valuable to him than the souls they wanted to win [...but] he realized that if the cross changed even one person, it was worth the cost.); sci-fi (After devouring a big breakfast of egg-o-like, simu-bac meat product, flapjack substitute, and a flagon of coff-eine, Smit reconnoitered to clear his escape.); and noir thriller ("Listen, do not speak," a male voice on the phone said in unaccented English. The efficient, detached voice continued, "Go to SeaTac airport tomorrow..."). In "Chief," a Western vignette narrated by the son of an Indian chief, the sentences are simple and declarative, identifying the narrator as a non-native English speaker and adding a sort of innocence to the message. "Social Services" is a moving examination of the inadequacies of the titular institution, and of the difference one man can make. Staggeringly versatile, certain to continue honing his craft, Dan McKinnon is an author to watch. Dan McKinnon lives with his wife Donna, great-nephew Colton, dog Angel and two cats Boots and Baby in Shoreline, WA. He has worked as a contract technical writer at Microsoft.

Breadcrumbs

Religion & Spirituality

Xulon Press

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