"Flying Stories II" Subtitled: How I Came to Be a Pilot and Engineer and What Happened After That (Non-Fiction) What was it like to be a part of the generation born in the 1930s was too late to fly dirigibles or be barnstormers. They were too young to fly the B-17s and P-51s or design the new post war aircraft like the P-80 jet and Bell X-1 rocket, but they picked up where the aviation pioneers left off and established the United States as the unchallenged world leader in the aviation industry.  Flying Stories, the author's second book, is about one of those kids, too young to go to the last big war, but who grew up in the midst of it. One of the faceless thousands of young engineers who helped make air travel safer than riding a bus. These are stories about the golden age of civil aviation and the forgotten aircraft engineers and pilots of the 1960s and 70s. This all new revised expanded 2012 soft cover 382 page or eBook First Edition supersedes the First thru Third Editions of Flying Stories first printed in 2003 and includes many new B&W photos of the era.