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Secrets from the Cockpit

Pilots Behaving Badly and Other Flying Stories

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Secrets from the Cockpit

Yazan: Robert Schapiro
Seslendiren: Richard Wright-Firth
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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.

©2021 Robert Shapiro (P)2023 Jonathan Ball Publishers Military & War Havacılık Esprili Komik Askeri İyi Hissettiren Hava Kuvvetleri
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"A witty, sometimes heart-stopping, and always engrossing path from 'boy pilot' to elite aviator." (Jaundiced Eye columnist, William Saunderson-Meyer)
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the narrator makes a few errors ....for example runway 27Lis spoken 2 7 L nit twenty seven...for an aviation book this is a bit disappointing.

a fantastic memoir

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Loved the book. I love the fact that Rob succeeded in his career and life despite Herzlian expectations. What an achievement, told in a down to earth, informative way with some caustic humour thrown in.

Honest entertaining story about an era in SA history and flying

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