Flying Between Heaven and Hell: Weathering Storms - Paperback

by Roger Blair Johnson (Author)

While on his deathbed my father revealed to me his long held secret, the topic of which he never shared with another person. I am convinced he became an alcoholic and closet madman due to his deathbed confession. I only wish he would have told me years earlier, as it would have allowed me to better understand the greatest villain, yet greatest hero of my life. As it was my father, a supremely gifted aviator, lived his life transitioning between the heaven in which he flew and the hell he created on earth with-in his family. I suffered much collateral damage in my personal life due to his abuse, but, I also became his greatest protege, and became an aviator.

This memoir takes the reader into the very esoteric world of the aviator. It brings you into the cockpits of many aircrafts, F-4, MD-11, DC-4, F-16, et al. You will fly around the world and in all kinds of mother nature maelstroms. In addition to the storms outside, father and son battled emotional storms from with-in and between them, psychological torments of such extreme proportions it, threatened to destroy their souls. This is my story of failed marriages, alcoholism, and the coming to terms with a road less traveled. A story that shows your past does not have to destroy you.