Dave Shutter
Registered User
Check this out, from aero-news net:
quote: Earthshattering News: Shane Osborn Gets Book Deal Lt. Shane Osborn, America's newest hero, commander of the Navy reconnaissance plane crew held for 11 days in China, has two book deals. One of his books looks like it will be of interest to ANN readers: it's about the experiences of April 1~11, 2001, when Osborn's EP-3 Aries II surveillance plane was knocked out of the air by an overly-aggressive (and now deceased) Red Chinese stunt pilot flying an F-8 fighter plane; and on the subsequent captivity of Osborn and the crew in the hands of the Red Chinese military, on Hainan Island, "The Hawaii of China." The other book will targeted at young readers, a sort of memoir. Broadway Books made the deal on the "incident" book; Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers will publish for the younger set. Both are divisions of Random House; and both books are due out this November. Osborn made a dramatic save of the lumbering EP-3, recovering from an attitude which prompted him to think at the time (as he recalled later), "That guy just killed us all." He was able to take the rapidly-depressurizing, badly-shaking airplane to a safe landing sixty miles away, at Lingshui Air Base on Hainan Island, in the meantime issuing orders for the security procedures that, the Navy says, kept the largest part of the US secrets aboard the plane from the Reds. Osborn became a genuine and instant hero in a country where heroism has become so rare lately; and he has appeared with dignity and good humor in a variety of venues since his and his crew's safe release in April. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his applied skills, which undoubtedly saved the lives of his 24-person crew.
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quote: Earthshattering News: Shane Osborn Gets Book Deal Lt. Shane Osborn, America's newest hero, commander of the Navy reconnaissance plane crew held for 11 days in China, has two book deals. One of his books looks like it will be of interest to ANN readers: it's about the experiences of April 1~11, 2001, when Osborn's EP-3 Aries II surveillance plane was knocked out of the air by an overly-aggressive (and now deceased) Red Chinese stunt pilot flying an F-8 fighter plane; and on the subsequent captivity of Osborn and the crew in the hands of the Red Chinese military, on Hainan Island, "The Hawaii of China." The other book will targeted at young readers, a sort of memoir. Broadway Books made the deal on the "incident" book; Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers will publish for the younger set. Both are divisions of Random House; and both books are due out this November. Osborn made a dramatic save of the lumbering EP-3, recovering from an attitude which prompted him to think at the time (as he recalled later), "That guy just killed us all." He was able to take the rapidly-depressurizing, badly-shaking airplane to a safe landing sixty miles away, at Lingshui Air Base on Hainan Island, in the meantime issuing orders for the security procedures that, the Navy says, kept the largest part of the US secrets aboard the plane from the Reds. Osborn became a genuine and instant hero in a country where heroism has become so rare lately; and he has appeared with dignity and good humor in a variety of venues since his and his crew's safe release in April. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his applied skills, which undoubtedly saved the lives of his 24-person crew.
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