Mayfly

by Mike James

Much has been written about aviation, nearly all of it focussed on the glamorous work of pilots. Even cabin crew have checked in their stories. However, though a hundred of us stand behind every pilot, virtually nothing has been written about groundlings, without whom there would be no flying. Mayfly is one man’s account of his two-and-a-half-decade adventure in aviation; the fun, the excitement, the tragedy, as witnessed (mostly) from the ground.

214 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2024

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Reviews

[Linda Amos · Rating 4 out of 5]

A funny, irreverent look at an airfreight company from an insider viewpoint. Mike James (pseudonym) had me giggling from page 1 with the ups and many more downs of the joys of being a loadmaster calculating how the cargo should be loaded for balance. The imagery of 30 in-calf Friesian cows with many hours of delays is hilarious (although I'm sure the smell wasn't) as is the description of a 1950s freight plane - 'a builder's skip with wings and the performance of a rheumatic vicar climbing a hill on a rusty bicycle'. I shall never look at a skip the same way again. All in all, a very funny book.
Thank you, Lovereading, for letting me read a free copy.