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Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit

Contributors:

By (Author) Mark Hasara
Foreword by Rush Limbaugh

ISBN:

9781501181672

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Imprint:

Threshold Editions

Publication Date:

1st May 2018

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Memoirs
Aircraft and aviation
Air forces and warfare
Military institutions

Dewey:

B

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

320

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 23mm

Weight:

363g

Description

From a veteran air-refueling expert who flew missions for over two decades during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War comes a thrilling eyewitness account of modern warfare, with inspirational stories and crucial lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, and in their everyday lives.

Get a glimpse of life in the pilots seat and experience modern air warfare directly from a true American hero. Lt. Col Mark Hasarawho has twenty-four years experience in flying missions around the worldprovides keen and eye-opening insights on success and failure, and emphasizes the importance of always being willing to learn.

He provides twelve essential lessons based on his wartime experience and his own personal photographs from his missions during the Cold War, Gulf War, and Iraq War. With a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and radio host Rush Limbaugh, this is a military memoir not to be missed.

Author Bio

For twenty-four years Mark Hasara operated one of the Air Forces oldest airplanes, the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. His career started during the Reagan Administration, carrying out Strategic Air Command's nuclear deterrent mission. Moving to Okinawa Japan in August 1990, he flew missions throughout the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia. His first combat missions were in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. As a Duty Officer in the Tanker Airlift Control Center, he planned and ran five hundred airlift and air refueling missions a month. Upon retirement from the Air Force, Mark spent seven years at Rockwell Collins in engineering, designing and developing military fixed and rotary wing aircraft cockpits. Mark became a full-time author and defense industry consultant in 2014.

Rush Limbaugh was the host ofThe Rush Limbaugh Showthe nations highest-rated talk radio program, with an audience of more than 30 millionand was the #1New York Timesbestselling author of The Way Things Ought To Be; See, I Told You So; andthe Adventures of Rush Revere book series. Visit OfficialRushLimbaugh.com.

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