Sounded ID: 9780991296132
ISBN: 9780991296132
Publication Date: February 10, 2020
Publisher: Books by Bob Rogers, Inc.
Language: English
Author Name: Carl Gamble and Bob Rogers
Narrator Name: Bob Rogers
Carl Gamble, a premier airline pilot, has penned a remarkable memoir, a powerful story about his journey from the cotton fields of Madison County, Alabama, to the captain’s seat flying jumbo jets between North America and Europe. While in grade school, Gamble was inspired by jet fighters flying over Madison from a near-by Air Force Base and his dream to become a pilot was born. Gamble’s hard and focused work overcame an inauspicious start studying aviation at Tennessee State University, a stepping stone toward a flying career for African Americans of small means in the 1960s.
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Carl Gamble, a premier airline pilot, has penned a remarkable memoir, a powerful story about his journey from the cotton fields of Madison County, Alabama, to the captain’s seat flying jumbo jets between North America and Europe. While in grade school, Gamble was inspired by jet fighters flying over Madison from a near-by Air Force Base and his dream to become a pilot was born. Gamble’s hard and focused work overcame an inauspicious start studying aviation at Tennessee State University, a stepping stone toward a flying career for African Americans of small means in the 1960s.
Gamble was awarded the Air Force’s coveted Distinguished Flying Cross. His quick thinking and superior flying skills enabled him to land his C-47, severely disabled by enemy antiaircraft fire, and save the lives of his crew in Vietnam.
My Blue Yonder tells Gamble’s story by taking you to his boyhood home, into the cockpit of his crippled plane, and into his PTSD. You fly with him to rescue men adrift on an ice floe in Lake Superior, refuel combat aircraft at four hundred miles per hour over the Gulf of Tonkin, and negotiate with a hijacker while flying in a holding pattern off the coast of Florida.
A memorable quote passed through generations of pilots, and a favorite of Gamble’s, is, “There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots.” Similarly, there are pilots who have landed burning airplanes and there are pilots who have been hijacked. Gamble is potentially the first pilot to experience both.
# | Title | Duration |
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1. | 00 Opening Credits |
0 mins 13 secs |
2. | 01 Chapter 1 - A Burning Airplane |
36 mins 40 secs |
3. | 02 Chapter 2 - The Officer's Club |
25 mins 07 secs |
4. | 03 Chapter 3 - Back in the Saddle |
58 mins 25 secs |
5. | 04 Chapter 4 - Living in Rocket City |
13 mins 17 secs |
6. | 05 Chapter 5 - If You Want, You Can Fly |
22 mins 37 secs |
7. | 06 Chapter 6 - Here to Yonder |
34 mins 19 secs |
8. | 07 Chapter 7 - Influencers |
39 mins 38 secs |
9. | 08 Chapter 8 - Seeing America |
23 mins 58 secs |
10. | 09 Chapter 9 - Cold Warrior |
53 mins 44 secs |
11. | 10 Chapter 10 - Real World Struggles |
46 mins 07 secs |
12. | 11 Chapter 11 - Piedmont Airlines Flight 451 |
24 mins 21 secs |
13. | 12 Chapter 12 - Flying Big Birds |
20 mins 52 secs |
14. | 13 Chapter 13 - Tailspin |
16 mins 37 secs |
15. | 14 Chapter 14 - Level Flight |
6 mins 36 secs |
16. | 15 Closing Credits |
1 mins 23 secs |
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