Escape To The High Country is the fictional story of a young man coming home from his tour of duty in Vietnam Chris Brown is looking for a place to get away from the world. He is ready to leave strife and turmoil behind him.

After traveling by his old home, where his parents are deceased, the home now under a shopping center, he goes to Colorado and finds a piece of land to homestead.

The stewardess on his homeward flight to the US comes to see him after he sends her a letter he had promised when he got settled.

He discovers gold on the property that leads to the purchase of a ranch in New Mexico, and to the helping of a fellow Vietnam Vet. It is a totally an affirming story of a young man seeking and finding happiness.

First Lieutenant BJ Parker is halfway through Air Force pilot training, leading his class but losing his touch, and he can’t land the supersonic T38 jet trainer. BJ is a young man with a desperate need to measure up, and failure is unthinkable. He needs a savior.

Ryan Richter is an instructor pilot with the magic to save lost students. Ryan is eager to help, but he and BJ’s wife, Mary Clare, were teenage sweethearts, and BJ fears the old flame still smolders.

Mary Clare is the perfect little Air Force wife, committed to help her husband win his wings any way she can, but she has her own reasons to keep Ryan Richter at a distance. She has a secret she is determined that Ryan must never learn.

One more training flight with Pete Kruger, a celebrated warrior home from the skies over Hanoi and unhappy to be training weenies, leaves BJ drained and shaken, teetering at the edge of washout. He cannot let himself fail. Ryan Richter is his only hope. BJ makes a choice, a choice that turns his flying career around and all their lives upside down.

Vertical Challenge: The Hiller Aircraft Story focused on a helicopter industry pioneer, the most innovative of the four companies that achieved volume helicopter production during the 1940’s, it was the only one located outside the eastern U.S., in northern California. Not only did Hiller Aircraft build the longest-produced piston-engine helicopter; it was also the source of many innovative alternatives to conventional helicopters -- flying platforms, ramjet helicopters, and cargo-carrying VTOL (vertical-takeoff-and-landing) planes.

Jay P. Spenser provides a highly readable combination of corporate history, technical history, and biography, tracing Hiller Aircraft through war and peace, depression and economic expansion, and final corporate closure. The company’s founder and director, Stanley Hiller, Jr., was only nineteen years old when he made history with his XH-44, the first successful helicopter to use all-metal rigid rotor blades. Hiller’s design skills and his stamina as a test pilot were considerable, and his corporate vision was pivotal in shaping the character and direction of his company. He attracted a remarkable team of engineers, test pilots, and business associates, creating a company noted for the boldness of its design concepts. Hiller Aircraft’s legacy of new technologies remains out of all proportion to the company’s relatively small size.

The highly competitive nature of helicopter development is vividly portrayed. Hiller’s brief World War II association with Henry J. Kaiser is detailed, as is the company’s stand-alone course after 1945, during a time when the future of helicopter technology, in contrast to that of fixed-wing aircraft, was still uncertain. The civilian helicopter market had scarcely emerged and military procurement programs were never guaranteed, thereby forcing all competitors in the U.S. market to ride a financial roller coaster. Hiller Aircraft’s loss of the military contract for the LOH (Light Observation Helicopter) was a crucial factor in the corporation’s untimely demise in 1968, with Howard Hughes playing a singularly dramatic adversary role.

Spenser accurately describes Hiller Aircraft’s intriguing ducted fan research, and its development of helicopters like the UH-1 Commuter (addressing the dream of "an aircraft in every garage"), the classic Hiller 360 (known in its military role as the H-23A, an air ambulance in the Korean War), and the Rotorcycle. He also notes some of Hiller’s more visionary concepts, such as the "flying submarine" and tip-powered flying cranes that were never built although the company devoted years of research to their development. All are presented in a context that integrates elements of economic, social, and military history, providing a working sense of how a test program evolves.

Appendixes include specifications and performance of Hiller aircraft serial and bureau numbers, and museums displaying Hiller aircraft. Copiously illustrated, the book includes over eighty photographs of as well as schematic drawings of Hiller aircraft.

This book is a work of fiction, and its plot is well within the realm of possibility. The story is of a former Vietnam War POW incarcerated in the infamous Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, more popularly known as the Hanoi Hilton. He, as well as his brothers-in-arms, endured the unendurable, and they may well be the last Americans to uphold the love of country and the Code of Conduct.

To many, their threads for survival were the links of religious faith, family, and love. One exception is our principal character, Robert Stone, whose will to survive was nurtured instead by hate so he might one day have his reckoning. If not against the North Vietnamese, then perhaps to take vengeance upon one whose presence in North Vietnam was traitorous and the catalyst for further grief to the hapless Americans. Upon his repatriation into an entirely different world, the fervor of hate diminished with an equivalent ardor developing for furtherance of his career and a return to the cockpit, something only aviators would understand.

The chronicles of his career weave through association with friends, mentors, and a special woman whom he met at Clark Field upon his arrival from Hanoi. In anticipation of promotion to general rank during his tenure at Williams AFB as the Pilot Training Wing Commander, he sets his sights on becoming the Air Force's Public Information Officer, something no respecting fighter pilot would do. His purposes were to be afforded the opportunity to instill backbone in an otherwise lackey service career field and to digest all the information and film footage of those American collaborators in North Vietnam. Though his vow for retribution lay dormant for a number of years, a periodic nagging from within often caused a struggle with how he might one day fulfill his vow.

Due to the expertise developed in the public relations field while assigned as the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Public Information, Robert Stone elects upon retirement to set up a public relations firm in Beverly Hills. He now zeroes in on his prey, today a renowned author.

This book is a work of fiction, and its plot is well within the realm of possibility. The story is of a former Vietnam War POW incarcerated in the infamous Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, more popularly known as the Hanoi Hilton. He, as well as his brothers-in-arms, endured the unendurable, and they may well be the last Americans to uphold the love of country and the Code of Conduct.

To many, their threads for survival were the links of religious faith, family, and love. One exception is our principal character, Robert Stone, whose will to survive was nurtured instead by hate so he might one day have his reckoning. If not against the North Vietnamese, then perhaps to take vengeance upon one whose presence in North Vietnam was traitorous and the catalyst for further grief to the hapless Americans. Upon his repatriation into an entirely different world, the fervor of hate diminished with an equivalent ardor developing for furtherance of his career and a return to the cockpit, something only aviators would understand.

The chronicles of his career weave through association with friends, mentors, and a special woman whom he met at Clark Field upon his arrival from Hanoi. In anticipation of promotion to general rank during his tenure at Williams AFB as the Pilot Training Wing Commander, he sets his sights on becoming the Air Force's Public Information Officer, something no respecting fighter pilot would do. His purposes were to be afforded the opportunity to instill backbone in an otherwise lackey service career field and to digest all the information and film footage of those American collaborators in North Vietnam. Though his vow for retribution lay dormant for a number of years, a periodic nagging from within often caused a struggle with how he might one day fulfill his vow.

Due to the expertise developed in the public relations field while assigned as the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Public Information, Robert Stone elects upon retirement to set up a public relations firm in Beverly Hills. He now zeroes in on his prey, today a renowned author.

This book is about seven Army Air Force pilots who flew during World War II. This book gives you a glimpse into their daily lives as they carried out their wartime adventures.

This story will give you insight into how serious the war really was, plus give you a chuckle and warm your heart.

Enjoy the Book! When you are through reading it I hope you will come away with a new respect for the men and women of the Armed Forces.

Bea Stephens was nineteen and female in the early 1940’s. She was uncomfortably removed from the war effort. Men of her generation were headed overseas or in training. Brave women enlisted. Bea came upon a job with Civil Aeronautics never before offered to women.

Her story takes the reader through initial training in Chicago, Illinois. It travels with her to five stations in a three-year period. Each is a challenge to her as a young girl on her own, and to her skill as an Aircraft Communicator.

There is romance, travel, and the making of a woman in this novel. Her protagonist is the war itself, and the difficulties placed upon young citizens of her time.