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Strap yourself into the jump-seat, make sure your harnesses are pulled really tightly, and let Scott 'Sunshine' Gibson give you the flight of your life. Join him as he meets up with some old and new comrades, Ryan 'shut-eye' Davis, Lawrence 'sticky' LaBelle, Jack 'crackerjack' McCleary, Carson 'sleepy' Sandmann, John Edward 'long john' Silver, and Sebastian 'Atlas' Williams, aboard a Beech 18, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Boeing 314 Clipper, and a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer and share in his adventures from Newfoundland to Mexico to Malaysia in the late 1960's. Hang on to your hats boys. It's time to fly. Living besides Prestwick Airport on the West coast of Scotland the inspiration for this book came from watching the many different aircraft that visited this once busy 'fog free' airport. Home to the builders of the Twin Pioneer, Scottish Aviation, and a safe haven for numerous diversions in the sixties and seventies. Whether it was crew training by BOAC 707's and VC-10's or BEA Tridents, scheduled flights by Pan Am, KLM, and SAS, or visits by various USN and USAF aircraft such as C-117D's or C-141A's there was always a, now nostalgic, variety of movements to observe.