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    From Borneo to Lockerbie: Memoirs of a RAF Helicopter Pilot

    By Geoffrey Leeming

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    Geoff Leeming belongs to an elite group of helicopter pilots. He describes his flying experiences in under-powered, and by today’s high-tech standards, basic choppers such as the single-engine Whirlwinds and its successor, the Wessex, whether in turbulent tropical conditions, windswept mountains or low level over raging seas. Much of Geoff’s flying career was in Search and Rescue (SAR) calling for the highest flying skills and the coolest of nerves. It fell to the pilot to make life-and-death decisions for both their crews and those they were rescuing.

    In addition to many great SAR accounts, this book begins with accounts of action in Borneo in the 1960s and ends with Geoff’s fascinating account of his flying involvement in the aftermath of the Pan Am Lockerbie disaster.

    The result is a medley of cockpit experiences ‘par excellence’.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword
    Release dateJun 19, 2013
    ISBN9781783469642
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