Maverick Pilot, Volume Two

Props to Jets finds Captain Case once-more in the Far East; flying a WWII propeller-driven cargo plane from Hong Kong to Vietnam. The city is one of the most exciting in the World; the women the most beautiful. His flying provides excitement and challenge. It is there he meets the most beautiful of the most beautiful and she consents to be his wife. Realizing the propeller airplane is becoming a relic he is fortunate to be hired as a DC-9 first officer by an Old China Hand who happens to be the Chief Pilot of a fledging airline destined to fly worldwide. A year later he is once more Captain Case, commanding the twin-jet hotrod of the sky. From there it’s on to the four-engine Douglas DC-8 and foreign adventures. This volume takes the reader through Captain Case’s career as it advances to the wide-body DC-10. Then misfortune strikes; federal deregulation puts the airline out of business.
Not to be undone he and his wife build a boat, sail it around the Pacific, thus fulfilling another quest. (The adventure is well-told in, Sailin’ South.)
Returning to land, Captain Case thinks his life as a pilot is finished.However, new vistas open and his life becomes that of the fly-for-hire, free-lance, go-for-it aviator. That gripping finale is for Volume III of Maverick Pilot; a read you will enjoy and not forget.