Even better! With todays cameras, you can attach them to the plane and film the flights!

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John

Nick ... what a wonderful bit of production to point out.

Thank-you for posting it.

Foggy

My pleasure Fogducker,
having read everything involved an aircfraft when i was teen-aged i never come across this novel.
It remind me " Stranger to the ground " by Richard Bach.
And in twenty years in airline flying i never meet a CEO or Manager that showed particular interest in the aviation books , so you seems to be the ideal person to work for , but unfortunatly i'm too far and too much aged .
Cheers.

Fog,

A nice thread that you've started here that seems to have introduced quite a few to a really fantastic story! (And I agree that it does remind one of 'Stranger to the Ground'... how many of us have also had those lonely "Oh hell, we wish we weren't up here any more" moments, but none like these stories!!)

A year or two ago I was passing over the East Anglia/Lincolnshire area on a beautiful CAVOK day on the way back from the Continent. I told my colleague about 'The Shepherd', but held myself back from saying too much because the only way to do it justice was for him to read it himself. I went home and pulled out my very old copy, that I had first read as a young air force pilot. I had to sit down there and then and re-read it and, even knowing the ending, it still left that 'chill'!! Forsyth has written some excellent short stories, but that one has to be one of the best ever... especially for aviators.