Product Description
by Francis Meyrick (Author)
Francis 'Moggy' Meyrick has spent a lifetime flying helicopters all over the world. He has interacted with many fascinating cultures, and delighted in the beauty of Mother Nature. In this book, you can walk a mile in Moggy's shoes. Wandering and wondering, starry nights, sunlit skies and holding hands, mild confusion and quiet compassion for Man and Nature, based on long hours flying in a glass bubble over endless vistas. You can share the comforting, constant, reliable, passing of blades overhead, the continuous, steady, mellow drumming, as we surrender to thoughts of All Our Mother. And, at night, lie gazing up at the stars of the Milky Way. In the first of these short stories, Moggy invites us to join him for a ride on his motorcycle. Where to? "I have no idea. I shall probably just point her nose into the rising sun. And go like hell." He describes the beauty of nature, from mountains to rocky shorelines, from birds around islands in the North of Scotland to fishes seen hundreds of feet below a fishing boat in mid-ocean. As a long-time helicopter pilot, he shares his joy in the views from his 'office in the sky' - and his sadness at losing so many of his fellow 'helicopter jockeys', his 'brothers'. He describes his introduction to 'the Whacky Races''(driving in America), and mischievously suggests that Tuareg ladies would make wonderful helicopter pilots. Not to mention the major impact their leadership style might have on corporate America. Moggy' spiritual confusions and confuddled experiences are recounted with a gentle humour. Often in what he calls 'doggerel verse': "A small man, rhyming, puzzling long Composing, two fingered, his feeble song..."
Author Biography
Francis 'Moggy' Meyrick has flown fixed wing and helicopters for well over forty years. Since he went solo in his early twenties he has logged over 12,500 flight hours, including a wide variety of helicopter applications all over the world. He flew aerobatics in his Christen Eagle, was a fixed wing and helo flight instructor, and spent many years flying helicopters off tuna fishing vessels in the Pacific and oil platforms in Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. He says: "I thoroughly enjoy being a chopper jockey. I like to say I'm gonna get me a real job one day. When I grow up. But not just yet, Lord, not just yet!"
