One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation - Softcover
A look at private aviation focuses on Galt Airport in northern Illinois, describing the flying men and women who have made it special. 15,000 first printing.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Back Cover:
Galt Airport in northern Illinois, known to its pilots as "One Zero Charlie" (for its Federal Aviation Administration designation as Airport 10C), is a microcosm of grass roots aviation. Through his years of flying, Laurence Gonzales flew out of One Zero Charlie and has come to know the flying men and women who have made it a sort of all-hours club, where someone is always brewing coffee, and the doughnuts are fresh from the bakery. By turns exhilarating, intimate, hilarious, and tragic, this book explores the most democratic America there is, the only qualification being that you have to be crazy to join. No detached observer, Gonzales is deeply involved in his Blue Highways of the sky. He skillfully rips through our illusions and gets at the perverse reality of aviation, in which science can turn to witchcraft in a flicker, and those who aren't quick to notice the transformation are quick to perish.
From Library Journal:
This is an arresting book on private aviation, wherein the author describes, in storytelling fashion, how what appears to most of us as a hobby is actually a way of life bordering on obsession to the many who are intimately involved. The importance of "general" as opposed to "commercial" aviation is never quite spelled out, but readers will be both entertained and moved by this compelling portrait. Gonzales, author of The Still Point (Univ. of Arkansas Pr., 1990), successfully tells of the men and women who pursue this lifestyle and the needs and desires that drive them. Packed with a variety of tales from snowblind takeoff and landings to the horrors of plane crashes, the book is full of action. Recommended for popular aviation collections.
- Eric C. Shoaf, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Eric C. Shoaf, Duke Univ. Lib., Durham, N.C.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 141657641X
- ISBN 13 9781416576419
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
- Rating
Buy New
Learn more about this copy
US$ 15.25
Shipping:
US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Seller Image
One Zero Charlie : Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Softcover
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 5319069-n
Buy New
US$ 15.25
Convert currency
Seller Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation (Paperback or Softback)
Published by
Simon & Schuster 9/10/2007
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Paperback or Softback
Quantity: 5
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation 0.78. Book. Seller Inventory # BBS-9781416576419
Buy New
US$ 17.90
Convert currency
Seller Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation [Soft Cover ]
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Soft Cover
Quantity: 10
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9781416576419
Buy New
US$ 19.54
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Mar2411530188436
Buy New
US$ 15.96
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2024)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Paperback
Quantity: 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Brand New! This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 141657641X
Buy New
US$ 20.64
Convert currency
Seller Image
One Zero Charlie (Paperback)
Published by
Simon & Schuster, New York, NY
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of flying draws people together, and a fascination with its sheer exhilaration keeps them that way. Galt Airport in northern Illinois is known to the people who fly out of it as "One-Zero-Charlie" (for its FAA designation as Airport 10C). This evocative excursion into a little-known part of the heart of America takes us to a place where a love of flying draws people together, and a fascination with its sheer exhilaration keeps them that way. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781416576419
Buy New
US$ 22.28
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # DADAX141657641X
Buy New
US$ 23.80
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Softcover
Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9781416576419
Buy New
US$ 25.00
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie: Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
Paperback
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_141657641X
Buy New
US$ 21.75
Convert currency
Stock Image
One Zero Charlie Adventures in Grass Roots Aviation
Published by
Simon & Schuster
(2007)
ISBN 10: 141657641X
ISBN 13: 9781416576419
New
PAP
Quantity: 15
Seller:
Rating
Book Description PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # IQ-9781416576419
Buy New
US$ 28.66
Convert currency