Goodies and Gadgets - December 2012
Ideas for the Future Pilots on Your List
Tailwinds: Adventures of a Young Aviator
Free Ebook
What if your parents introduced you to flying at a very young age? What if you began in the 1930s when the few aviation regulations were rarely enforced? Think of the adventures you might have experienced.
Dan Poynter’s book, titled Tailwinds: Adventures of a Young Aviator, takes place in the late 30s and early 40s and is illustrated with black-and-white photos that were taken at that time and maps depicting all the places the young hero visits. Fascinating videos provide back up material and almost all were from that early era.
The book reveals the ‘story behind the story’ of many events between 1939 and 1942. The places described in the book are real as are most of the events and people. The dialogue is presumed and the main character is fictional – but he could have been real.
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The author, Dan Poynter, is a pilot, skydiver, master parachute rigger, the author of 132 books—many on aviation, a world traveler — 53 countries and the North Pole, and an aviation historian.
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The Zoomers
Vesna Ajic’s love of flying, combined with her passion for teaching was what lead to the writing of The Zoomers. She noted that while children’s “airplane characters” did appear in some books and television shows, little existed that helped kids understand what flying is, and how it actually works. The Zoomers is a unique book that combines adventure and knowledge with family values and a parent/child relationship that is filled with love and learning. The book stars Zulu and Victor Zoomer, two airplanes who are very much in love and fly all around the world together. Zulu and Victor long to share their knowledge of aviation and their beautiful world with young, new planes. One early morning, the mechanics Mike and Charlie finally finish their work and surprise The Zoomers. “Mama” Zulu and “Papa” Victor are elated to meet their new little airplanes, Echo and Oscar. With engines humming, this new family takes to the sky where new adventures await them.
With great illustrations, The Zoomers is a perfect Christmas gift for that future aviator.
Vesna Ajic was born in Lazarevac, Serbia in 1961 where aviation, especially for women, was nearly unheard of. That, however, did not stop Vesna as a young girl, from dreaming of taking to the sky. While maintaining her dream to fly, Ms. Ajic entered into criminal law, practiced professionally and started a family. In 1989, with war looming in her native country, Vesna, along with her family and then two-year-old daughter, emigrated to America with hopes of a safer and brighter future. Unbeknownst to her at the time, that future would include a remarkable group of friends that not only introduced her to flying, but lead her to a new career. She now flies Citation Jets and conducts pilot ground training at the well-known jet flight school, Arizona Type Ratings (www.arizonatyperatings.com).
Vesna’s book, The Zoomers, may be purchased on line at www.TheZoomersBooks.com.
