Short Hops: My Life as a Flyer!

Short Hops was originally conceived as a series of short stories to be published separately in Flying Magazines and periodicals pertaining to personal aviation experiences in the US Air Force, the US Army Infantry and the commercial helicopter industry. Now in chronological order for the readers' enjoyment, it starts with a childhood desire to become a flyer, chronicles true incidents in the life of a flyer who earns his coveted Air Force wings of silver, transitions into Army Aviation with its changing tactics and training, which results in receiving the Master Army Aviator's badge and the highest civilian Air Transport ratings.

David Arthur Jarratt is Hoosier born and Buckeye bred. He is a retired US Army Lt. Colonel, Master Army Aviator and graduate of the Command and General Staff College. He earned a BA degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and a Master of Music degree with Highest Honors from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He presently lives in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, works as a professional screen actor and concert singer and occasionally pecks out stories on his PC. His personal flying memoir titled SHORT HOPS: My Life as a Flyer! was recently published by Xlibris.