From a five star review:
“This book is a true recounting of what it was like to fly training aircraft, both prop and jet. The anxieties of both daily danger and lurking Viet Nam duty made for some tenseness in the life. But nothing is more exciting than high speed, high G-force air to air combat in identical aircraft except maybe high speed, low altitude terrain following flights over west Texas.”
Bill- I just finished reading the book and I think this may be your best yet!!!!! I can’t wait for the next!! Write faster.
...Connie R., Houston
Comment from a participant:
While I am nowhere near done I can fully appreciate the talent you exhibit - I love your style and the humor you inject makes an already intriguing read even more palatable. Yours is an "I can't put it down" book.
Did I skip ahead a bit? Perhaps and if I did, I might have rediscovered that moment in time when two people shared a very special relationship - which - at least on one of their parts - has surpassed that moment and will always linger in her being.
Again thank you for that dear author.
From a five star review:
“Very straightforward, great insight into successfully navigating one's way into the business of architecture. Must read for those transitioning from acadamia to the world of employment.”
A smallish book with good advice.
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Updated in late 2025!
Amazon discounts my books quite often!
Hey Bill.... December 2024
FIRST a hearty "Happy Thanksgiving" holiday wish from us - to you and your household there on a beautiful hill in Colorado Springs.
We are good here in north central Arkansas - digging out from the leaves coming down from our oak-ash-pine-elm-walnut woods... and generally enjoying life. I write specifically about "Hardly in Harm's Way"... and the impact it is having around the world.
A few years ago - I gifted a copy to a close friend here in the neighborhood - a fellow pilot whom I often meet for lunch and other activities around the airport. He mentioned this week that he had finally picked up your book - and started to read it. He enjoyed it very much - especially the first section on the circumstances around entering the military - the attempt at "SEAL" training - and subsequent rebound to the highest levels of Naval Aviation as an IP.
He specifically asked me to contact you and relay how much he enjoyed the book - how entertaining it was - and how much he looks forward to finishing through the "technical stuff" and Parts X forward. This guy is not easily impressed by anything (a PhD in education and a former university professor - has built his own airplane from a kit (a Zenith STOL type) - that he hangars near my ..now Cessna 182T at our local county airport.
... and he founded the www.leadingedgeaviationfoundation.org that continues to expand aerospace/aviation industry career opportunities for youth in our area.
So it makes me particularly proud to be the recipient of several autographed copies of this master work that you describe as - your "second book, but not my last."... and follow that with the statement "I am certain it will entertain you." Apparently you were right!
Good job, Bill... I wish I had been in your high school class, instead of two years behind.
Best wishes, Gere G., Arkansas.
