Fly Low, Fly Fast - Robert Gandt

Hardcover: 313 pages
Publisher: Viking Penguin, NY, NY (1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0670884510
ISBN-13: 9780670884513
Product Dimensions: 9.25 x 4.25 x 1.1 inches

This first-ever insider foray into the world's fastest and most dangerous aviation sport is as thrilling as Ernest Gann's classic Fate Is the Hunter or Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff.

In Fly Low, Fly Fast, Robert Gandt takes us into the high-risk world of airplane racing, chronicling the 1997 and 1998 championships at the Reno Air Races, attended every year by more than 100,000 spectators and featured on scores of web sites. Flying wingtip to wingtip around pylons at 500 mph, just feet above the sagebrush, Reno's killing machines are piloted by an adrenaline-addicted, type-A elite whose big talent and big egos spawn a hundred stories. With the same vivid reportage of his Bogeys and Bandits --"about as close as you can get (to the cockpit) without arming the ejection seat," said the San Diego Union-Tribune -- Gandt traces the history of this exhilarating but often deadly sport. He follows the evolution of competition planes from the 1930s custom exotics to today's big, throaty warbirds like the Mustang and Bearcat, still the fastest piston-engine planes ever built. Gandt also looks at the evolution of the pilots from famous laconic old-time air cowboys to the younger, slicker hot shots, the jet-fighter-trained "top guns."

Fly Low, Fly Fast ignites with fierce rivalries, the struggles to keep the vintage warbirds flying, the heart-stopping drama of the races themselves... with winners, losers, close calls, spectacular crashes, and glorious victories. It's a book for aviation buffs, armchair adventurers and anyone fascinated by the passions that drive men and women to test their limits--and risk their lives--in the quest for speed.

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WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT
FLY LOW, FLY FAST

"If you want a rip roaring, eyeball-flattening, G-pulling ride around the pylons in the hottest pure race planes ever built, reading this book is as close as you will ever get."
- From Pacific Flyer, March 2000

"Robert Gandt has done more than write a book about the people who fly unlimited airplanes at Reno once a year -- he has provided an unvarnished and intimate inside peek inside their very hearts and minds."
-- Wayman Dunlap, Pacific Flyer

"This book is a worthy successor to his BOGEYS AND BANDITS, which was also
outstanding. I only hope he's got another book in the works. "
-- T.E. Vaughan, reader reviewer on Amazon.com

"As an author, Gandt has a way with words that will send the reader soaring above the crowds at an excess of 500 miles an hour. One of the most thrilling reads of the summer."
-- News Chief, Sept. 12, 1999

"Gandt, a working stiff who currently flies as a Delta Air Lines captain and does airshows in his bright red Siai-Marchetti SF.260, understands not only airplanes but the people who fly them."
-- Air & Space, Feb/Mar 2000

"Gandt's souped up, jargonized writing is for fans of air racing and warships and lovers of extreme sports..."
-- Publishers Weekly, Oct. 18, 1999

2005 Reno Air Races.. your book "fly low, fly fast"
Have your book. Take it to Reno every year for pilot & owner signatures. Now have 32 signatures. How can I get you to sign my book? I live in Dallas, TX.
Your book is awesome. On my 5th reading.
Thanks, Glenn Snyder
ps: I am researching Junior Burchinal for a short story. He had a warbird school in Paris TX in mid 70's. A very interesting character.

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