This Close: Dodging Extinction and Other Stories

Autobiography of early events filled with hazards and humor that brought the writer This Close to extinction as a teen: Exploding rocket engines, a power-ice-sled crash in a New England blizzard, an airboat sunk in Florida, a parachute problem, a bulldozer sunk in a swamp, a crashed and burned helicopter. He survived, became a mechanical engineer, logged fifty years of aerospace design from Apollo to the International Space Station, from medical implants to military aircraft. And started four successful businesses.