Product Description

Part mediatation, part history, and in it Ramo describes how he and his fellow pilots, including the greatest aerobatic pilots in the world, engage in a sport that on any day in the air can cost them their lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1575768 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
Colonel (Ret.) Frank Borman Ramo has the right stuff and so does his book. It's a classic.

COL. (RET.) Frank Borman (Apollo 3 NASA Commander)
‘Ramo has the right stuff and so does his book. It’s a classic’

Customer Reviews

Aerobatics will kill you..
Or at least, that's the impression that is very easy to get from this book.
It contains lots of very good stories, anecdotes, etc about the various famous aerobatics pilots, but also spend an awful lot of time, describing the deaths and dangers involved. I got the impression that the author is flying aerobatics to prove something to himself and not because he actually enjoys flying.
Further, when the book then goes on to reveal that the author is seemingly only just starting out competing, it seems he talks awfully tough for his experience and ability.
Good for anecdotes, but also contains an awful lot of scaremongering.

loved this book
Engaging, readable and has a lot to say about extreme sports and why people do them.

Frequently pompous -- occasionally poetic; mostly boastful
The back-jacket blurb and mini-biography about Mr Cooper Ramo leave the reader in no doubt as to how clever he is -- senior editor of Time magazine, World Economic Forum Young Global leader, member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also the holder of two US national flying records.

There is no doubt on the edvidence of this book that he is a good writer (when he leaves some of the purple prose behind) and no doubt he is in love with flying. But what for? Not because he loves flight for itself it would seem -- at least not from what he writes in this book. More for the reason that he loves the opportunity to strut about and show off. His prose is just that -- show off and trite punctuated with unnecessary coarseness, but sprinkled with occasional lovely flashes of beautiful description which show good the book could have been if he hadn't been so set on trying to impress with how much testosterone he has. In the end one begins to tire of the boastfulness.