Flying the Knife Edge: New Guinea Bush Pilot

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Flying the Knife Edge: New Guinea Bush Pilot

Sometimes itâ€™s not about the destination...itâ€™s about the journey.
â€˜Flying the Knife Edgeâ€™ is the story of an ordinary man experiencing extraordinary things as a pilot in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s.
After an untimely exit from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, New Zealander Matt McLaughlin took a leap into the unknown, travelling to Papua New Guinea to work as a missionary pilot. He soon switched from missionary to mercenary, and over the next three and a half years, as he built up the necessary experience to chase his goal of becoming an airline captain, his life was a rollercoaster ride of adventure, risk, near-misses, and tragedy. Matt lived on the knife edge of bush pilot ops in one of the worldâ€™s most dangerous flying environments. Along the way he soaked up some fascinating local history: the country's vital role in WWIIâ€™s Pacific Theatre; the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart; the chaos of the Bougainville civil war; the Morobe gold rush of the 1930s...
â€œThe gap in the cloud became smaller and smaller as I descended, a shrinking tunnel twisting down the gorge. In a matter of seconds I was so low my wheels barely cleared the trees on the valley floor as I passed, and jungle-clad walls closed in on me until I was a mere wingspan from both sides of the valley. And then, in an instant, the gap was gone and I was flying blind.

In cloud.
In the bottom of a gorge.
With terrain on both sides rising thousands of feet above me.

Time stopped.

The passengers started screaming, anticipating the aircraft impacting the side of the mountain. And their deaths.
I had the capacity for just one other thought: Will I hear the sound of the airframe smashing into the trees as we crash, or will I be dead before it registers?â€

Country	USA
Author	Matt McLaughlin
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9789881403650
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Matt McLaughlin
Manufacturer	Matt McLaughlin
NumberOfPages	433
PublicationDate	2015-05-11
Publisher	Matt McLaughlin
ReleaseDate	2015-05-11
Studio	Matt McLaughlin

Flying the Knife Edge: New Guinea Bush Pilot

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