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This is the continued story of my life of adventures, encompassing my accident-prone childhood, my teens, when Police chased me for nothing more than being the only car on the road in the sleepy town of Chepstow at three in the morning, the sadness of losing my alcoholic dad, then years later, my mum after nursing her in her final days. Alongside this unfolds the adventures of working on and flying aircraft with the extraordinary people I ve met and trained on my journey. The field mice in my water tank, stopping water coming out of the taps and the two rats- one dead and powdery in the nose undercarriage bay, the other running around the Boeing 707, eating into the water pipes. There are the stories too about the pilot friends I ve sadly lost. Then the story of the Royal Brunei Boeing 757 that was banging and yawing all the way back from Kuwait and the really cool captain, who said to me as I entered the cockpit, Eng. It wasn t this bad when we flew into Kuwait! Then the time I flew with instructor Rob in a Thruster aircraft that went down like a Stuka.

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Austin James was born in a sleepy town in Wales. He overcame polio at age two, and with no more than a secondary education and without much prospect of employment in the area, he travelled across the newly built Severn Bridge in 1969 to take up an apprenticeship on Concorde at Filton, before moving to a twenty-two-year career at British Airways in London, another difficult move. Then he became chief flying instructor for Cloudbase Aviation, a private limited company he set up. Over the past 38 years, he has recounted the adventures and pitfalls that came with that life of adventure. In this second book, he focuses more on his personal life, including the sadness of losing parents and pilot friends, along with more interesting experiences not mentioned in book one, Living the Dream.

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