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(More customer reviews)Very few pilots are great writers. Here's one of the exceptions. Hinebaugh (then an Air Force pilot, now flying commercially) salts his narrative with deceptively beautiful lines, along with gutsy tales of flying under almost impossible conditions. Great nuggets also: did you know that planes at the South Pole can spew out contrails while still on the ground, thereby creating such a fog that they can't take off? Don't be put off by the silly title. It's a splendid book.
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Hinebaugh recounts his experiences as an LC-130 pilot with the US Navy's VXE-6 squadron, carrying scientists and their supplies in and out of the white continent. He describes cloudless sunny days mutating into maelstroms in minutes, of whiteout landings in which he brought her down without ever se
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