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(More customer reviews)Contains GREAT stories from an old school airline guy but is perhaps one of the most poorly written, poorly edited books that I've ever read. Beck's writing style is extremely distracting and again, aside from the stories, his quips are not at all clever or amusing. He would have a huge hit on his hands had he engaged the assistance of a writer or an editor to help him with the book. I can't believe that this thing even got published.
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Before you turn the next 613 pages, I want you to know that travel by airplane is still the safest mode oftransportation available,--so far,--in this millennium. There are unannounced drug & alcohol checks for the entire crew, --------------Crews & Stews-------------. These inspections are made prior to going to work-at the airport. Volume I of Flying High occurred mostly in the last of the fifties and the "Whoring Sixties". Color Television was playing in the display window of your local department store. Dick Tracy and buddies had the only "Cell Phones". "Mary-juanna" started taking money away from the liquorand tobacco industry. The hippies were moving into the Haight-Ashberry area. The "pill" had become the Catholics answer to birth control. That didn't work. -The world's population has doubled since one-ninner-six-zero.--------& Jet airplanes were leaving contrails in the sky for the first time. Aviating, at that point in time, was a litta, no a lottaloosa, than it is now. I have written in Co-Pilots and Flight Engineers as Captains-iflater on in the course of FLYING GIANT AIRLINES they achieve the---SKY GOD STATUS AS CAPTAINS. And by the way, ---some of the players names have been changed to protect the guilty. ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS------"IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER AGAIN"------"I WOULD DO IT EXACTLY THE SAME WAY"--- What you are about to enter now is the Flylight Ozone. This book is 613 pages
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