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Chopper Pilot: A Wings Over Nam aviation thriller Kindle Edition

by Eric Helm (Author), Cat Branigan (Author), Kevin D. Randle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 573 ratings
The first book in a gripping military aviation series you won’t want to miss! Perfect for fans of Andrew Watts, L. T. Ryan, Don Keith and George Wallace.

A rookie helicopter pilot finds himself dodging bullets in the skies above Vietnam…

Vietnam, 1968

The Vietnam War is in full swing and nineteen-year-old David Anderson is ready to leap into the jaws of death and do battle with the enemy, just as the instructors in flight school had taught him.

Now he’s a raw pilot in an Assault Helicopter Company, flying combat missions in the skies above Vietnam and slamming straight into the strength of the VC.

But it doesn’t take Anderson long to discover that war is not the glamorous thing the Saturday matinees had led him to believe. Now he no longer thinks of war as something that covers the participants in glory. It is real and deadly and covers no one with anything except maybe a burial shroud.

With no support from behind and only death in front of him, Anderson knows that there's only one way to fight in Vietnam — and that’s to do it his own way.

Will he beat the odds to survive? Will the horrors or war prove too much to endure?

And will he survive a night mission into an area where the VC will be waiting?

CHOPPER PILOT is the first book in the Wings Over Nam series: action-packed, authentic military aviation thrillers following war-hardened airmen as they fight to survive during the brutal Vietnam War.

WINGS OVER NAM SERIES:
BOOK 1: Chopper Pilot
BOOK 2: The Wild Weasels
BOOK 3: Linebacker
BOOK 4: Carrier War
BOOK 5: Bird Dog
BOOK 6: Eagle Eye
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0C37C99R4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 20, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.5 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0854950522
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  • Book 1 of 6 ‏ : ‎ Wings Over Nam
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  • Gman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Chopper Pilot
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2024
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    Chopper Pilot is a great story about the things that went on in South Vietnam. Many of the things that were reported in the news about the Vietnam war were not true or edited to lead the American public and the world at large away from the truth. The story is interesting because it shows that many in the US Army served and were used to improve the living conditions in South Vietnam but never able to see the end result.
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  • Twostory
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good stuff
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023
    Life in Vietnam during the war. Nicely done.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars I was not a nineteen year old huey combat pilot
    Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2023
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    I was actually twenty years old by the time I found myself in the left seat of a Charlie model in combat and I can tell you that at least one of these authors spent some time in the seat. The remarks about flight school, generally stupid procedures, and petty politics of company grade officers were all dead on. But the icing on the cake was the description of the 540 rotor system and the flying characteristics of the underpowered gunship. Not many people know that loss of hydraulics completely locks flight controls when the small reservoir (accumulator) is used . I read this book in a much too quick afternoon and enjoyed every minute.
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  • MarineCorpsFire
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good Read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2019
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    Overall a good read.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Definite read.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2024
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    As with all Eric Helm books, there's never a bad one. Very good character development, and characters that you'll like. Helm's writing still is simple making it always easy to follow the storyline.
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  • RWM
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun quick read.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2024
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    If you like Vietnam era fiction you will enjoy this book. If you know the reality of the time the story is possible and the ending very improbable. What the heck, its fun to dream.
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  • Patent Maven
    5.0 out of 5 stars Realistic, pounding action!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2023
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    The author obviously knows what he is writing about. Very realistic! Action that hardly ever stops to let you take a breath.
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  • Jack
    3.0 out of 5 stars Get's the War Right
    Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023
    This book certainly gets the SNAFU of operations correct as well as the attitudes of the mostly Warrant Officer pilots. What I don't understand is the confusion about left seat and right seat. In a helicopter the Aircraft Commander sits in the right seat not the left. The co-pilot sits in the left. And then there's the confusion about Anderson's PPIC (temporary AC or Peter Pilot in charge) check ride. Supposedly he's in the left seat but talks about the instrument panel being to his left. If he's in the left seat the panel is in front of him and to his right, not his left. In fixed wing the AC sits on the left and the CP on the right. Did somebody get confused? Also, there is rank among Warrant Officers. The older WOs would have been WO3/4s while the newbies were WO1s. So the concept that all WOs are the same rank is incorrect. The book is still a good read especially in its descriptions of assault operations although a night operation into a dry area becomes surreal as the dust of the lead ships obscure the LZ from those at the end of the formation. The most experienced pilots are at the end of the formation and the lead ship. The least experienced pilots go as close to the lead as possible since visibility becomes less the further back you go. But if you want to know what living conditions were like and how the weather saps your morale as well as your physical strength, this book gets it right.
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  • David Mooney
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2023
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    Authentic and gripping. The author obviously knows his subject. A short book for the price. Poor value I'm afraid sorry
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