{"product_id":"the-gift-mike-trahan-9781516975853","title":"The Gift: The Beginning","description":"From my earliest memory I have been fascinated with airplanes. I don't know where this fascination came from, but it was always there. When I was eight or nine years old I started building model airplanes. I began with the balsa wood and pa-per models that were powered by rubber bands. I soon graduated to the control line models that were powered by small gasoline engines. I spent hundreds of hours flying those things round and round. I was born during WWII, so a vast number of movies about air combat were there to watch while I was growing up. I probably saw every airplane movie ever made. One movie, \"Aviation Cadets,\" was about some men who went through Air Force Pilot Training. I had always wanted to go flying, to see what it was like up there, and I finally had the opportunity, one summer day in 1957. That one flight convinced me that being a pilot was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, and it led to a very enjoyable and exciting forty-five year career in aviation. I invite you to come along with me, and share my expe-riences as I learned to fly, built my flying time, and achieved more advanced pilot credentials, through high school and college. I was determined to get into the U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training. This is the story of how I got there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Trahan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1516975855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781516975853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.45d","brand":"Mike Trahan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44450229747967,"sku":"9781516975853","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_553a36fa-24c4-4f34-b722-c4895db3cfa3.jpg?v=1698503566","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gift-mike-trahan-9781516975853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}