{"product_id":"9781588344137","title":"Tales of a Helicopter Pilot","description":"Richard Kirkland is legendary for his P-38 Lightning missions in the South Pacific theater during WWII. After the war, he realized the potential of Igor Sikorsky’s new flying machine, and he traded in his fighter-pilot wings for rotors. The nerve-racking chopper missions he has flown are the stuff of legend: scrambling to evacuate president Harry Truman after an unthinkable “code red one” alert comes over his red phone; bantering with the real “Hawkeye” at a MASH unit before flying into North Korea to rescue wounded soldiers. Equally riveting are his accounts of a medevac pilot in Vietnam who lands a ten ton CH-46 “Frog” in the jungle at night, with no lights, under fire, with only a soldier’s cigarette lighter for reference; and an aerial tour pilot who routinely pulls people out of the water above, below, and right before Niagara Falls.","brand":"Smithsonian Institution Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137877426416,"sku":"9781588344137","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781588344137_p0.jpg?v=1763807846","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781588344137","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}