The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat - Hardcover

Cobleigh, Ed

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1629671576 ISBN 13: 9781629671574

Verlag: Check Six Books, 2019

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Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer who wouldn't learn Latin, a sports car salesman on the Champs-Elysées, an airshow pilot and racer. He demonstrated flight to huge crowds up and down the Americas. Ultimately, Roland Garros became the world's first fighter pilot. Leaving his comfortable life in Paris, he flew and fought in the lethal skies of the first World War. Never before had a lone pilot hunted other men in the air. Shot down and captured, he escaped prisoner of war camp, evaded his way across Germany, and crossed the front lines. After a torrid fling in Paris with an exotic dancer, he rejoined his squadron. Garros needed two more aerial victories to become an ace. This creative non-fiction biography puts you in an open cockpit, in air combat, and in Paris experiencing Belle Epoque pleasures. What was it like to fly across the Mediterranean in a rickety monoplane? How did pilots dogfight in WWI? Fasten your seatbelt for exciting aerial action and the adventure-packed life of Roland Garros, the first fighter pilot!

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Ed Cobleigh flew fighter planes with the US Air Force, US Navy, Royal Air Force, French Air Force and Imperial Iranian Air Force. He logged 375 combat mission during the Vietnam War. After his flying career, he served as an Air Intelligence Officer working with the CIA, FBI, and MI6. His first book, War for the Hell of It was a best seller.

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• Verlag: Check Six Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629671576
• ISBN 13: 9781629671574
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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