"Flying in a Chinook is like wrestling with a force of nature. You have to treat t with constant respect. Or one day it will catch you unawares and tear you apart. It has never suffered fools gladly"

David McMullon served for eight years with the Special Forces Flight Chinook squadron, the helicopter equivalent of the SAS. This is the true story of his elite flying career.

McMullon tells in riveting detail his experiences in flying Chinooks, the 'double-decker' of military aircraft. A mistake below one hundred feet can turn a Chinook from a flying machine into a falling rock inthe blink of an eye. And flying low is exactly what you need to do when you are ferrying SAS soldiers into enemy territory and need to avoid radar!

'David McMuIlon has been right on the edge. His experiences in the Gulf War and at Lockerbie are awesome and terrifying; his account of the effects of Golf War Syndrome is intensely moving and his analysis of the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash shows that he is an expert in his field.

This is a terrific bookin every way' JOHN NICHOL, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TORNADO DOWN