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Dancing the Skies and Falling with Style
At the dawn of the Jet Age, flying was romantic, exciting and exclusive. Drab post-war austerity surrendered to a less restrained, less politically correct, more vibrant era. Britain prospered with a newfound sense of optimism, business flourished and airlines expanded.
Colin Fairdale, an insecure public schoolboy, stumbles into a career as a pilot with BOAC at the end of the Swinging Sixties. He is a boy in a man's world of hard-drinking, boorish wartime pilots and a naïf among wild, carousing cabin crew
.
The high-pressure, high-octane lifestyle plays a heavy toll on his relationships as he blunders through life.
The terrorist attacks on New York heralded a more serious, rigid age.
Everything changed, forever...
Colin Fairdale, an insecure public schoolboy, stumbles into a career as a pilot with BOAC at the end of the Swinging Sixties. He is a boy in a man's world of hard-drinking, boorish wartime pilots and a naïf among wild, carousing cabin crew
.
The high-pressure, high-octane lifestyle plays a heavy toll on his relationships as he blunders through life.
The terrorist attacks on New York heralded a more serious, rigid age.
Everything changed, forever...
275 pages, Paperback
Published August 26, 2021
About the author
Calvin Shields
3 books2 followers Calvin Shields was born in 1949 in North Piddle, Worcestershire, UK.
His father was in the Royal Air Force and as a result, he spent his childhood living in the far flung corners of the crumbling British Empire
He joined BOAC as a cadet pilot in 1969 and completed his career with British Airways as a Captain on Boeing 747's. He subsequently flew for Singapore Airlines where he became deputy chief pilot training. He finished his flying career with TNT Airlines based in Belgium
He was fortunate to experience the 'Golden Era' of aviation at the dawn of the jet-age when 'politically correct' meant Labour or Conservative and air travel was less regulated.
Ever a sportsman, he crossed Greenland on skis in 2016 at 66 years old, and suffered a stroke while attempting to cross Corsica on skis in 2018.
During his convalescence he wrote his semi-fictional autobiography "Dancing the skies and falling with style" to chronicle an extraordinary life.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-skie...
His father was in the Royal Air Force and as a result, he spent his childhood living in the far flung corners of the crumbling British Empire
He joined BOAC as a cadet pilot in 1969 and completed his career with British Airways as a Captain on Boeing 747's. He subsequently flew for Singapore Airlines where he became deputy chief pilot training. He finished his flying career with TNT Airlines based in Belgium
He was fortunate to experience the 'Golden Era' of aviation at the dawn of the jet-age when 'politically correct' meant Labour or Conservative and air travel was less regulated.
Ever a sportsman, he crossed Greenland on skis in 2016 at 66 years old, and suffered a stroke while attempting to cross Corsica on skis in 2018.
During his convalescence he wrote his semi-fictional autobiography "Dancing the skies and falling with style" to chronicle an extraordinary life.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dancing-skie...
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