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From The Inside Front Dust Jacket Flap
Have you ever wondered what’s really going on behind the cockpit door of your airliner? While you’re sitting in your seat, reading a book or working on your laptop, what are your airline pilots doing while the autopilot is flying the airplane? And what could they possibly be talking about that was so funny?
This book is going to answer those questions for you and many more. You’ll read about a collision with a “flying bowling ball,” an airliner getting attacked by an angry eagle, a flight attendant’s cosmetic surgery displayed for her pilots, and having your airliner unintentionally flipped upside down! You’ll also read about what happened in the cockpit, leading up to the crash of a cargo airliner. These stories are sometimes tragic, sometimes dramatic, and sometimes funny, but always entertaining. And they are all true stories taken from the aviation life of an airline pilot, who flew during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. So, buckle your seat belt, sit back, relax, recline your seat, and enjoy your flight into the world of an airline pilot.
The Author’s Aviation Experience
James’s aviation experience began as a Crew Chief on a UH-1 Huey helicopter in Vietnam. After the Army and College, he was hired at Eastern Airlines on August 13, 1979 as an Airframe & Powerplant aircraft mechanic. He obtained his Private Pilot license in New York in 1976, His Private Pilot Glider license in Florida in 1978, his Flight Engineer turbojet license in California in 1987, and his Airline Transport Pilot Multi-Engine Land, Commercial Instrument Single-Engine Land, and Private Pilot Helicopter Licenses all in Texas in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He flew B-707, B-727, DC-8, and L-1011 airliners mostly as Flight Engineer, but sometimes in one of the front seats, in domestic and international Federal Air Regulations Part 121 (FAR 121) Passenger and Freight Operations as well as Military Operations as a civilian contractor. He has lots of aerobatic time in a J-3 Cub, Citabria, Scout, Champ, Great Lakes, a bit in a Pitts, and about 5 minutes in a Boeing 707. That B-707 story is included in his book, Behind the Cockpit Door: The True Adventures of an Airline Pilot.
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Logline
After her family fortune is lost, and on the verge of becoming a pauper, an irresponsible socialite marries the son of rich plantation owners in 1890s Missouri; but when his drinking threatens to bankrupt another business she must convince his family to give him one more chance before they disinherit and disown her and her children along with their inebriate son.
Synopsis
Anna Cheri DuFaux is an irresponsible French aristocrat’s daughter who has everything done for her. That is, until her father’s drunken business partner pushes them into bankruptcy. No longer able to afford her pampered lifestyle, she decides to marry the son of rich, German, former slave-holding, plantation owners in 1890s Missouri.
Everything is wonderful until she finds out that he has been spending most of his time drinking with his friends instead of managing the business his family set up for him. When the business goes bankrupt, she has to do something, anything, to try to keep her young family together. Anna goes to her husband’s family to convince them to give him one more chance.
After the ups and downs of trying to keep her husband sober, and with the help from an unlikely friendship, Anna realizes that she has to take charge of her own destiny and find a way to support herself and her children – with or without her husband.
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