Unusual Attitudes by Martha Lunken (Paperback)
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In Unusual Attitudes, Martha Lunken has collected her favorite columns from Flying Magazine to share with a wider audience. The stories chronicle Martha’s rich life in aviation and are peppered with an assortment of unforgettable aviation characters. Often funny, sometimes irreverent, always personal, the stories in Unusual Attitudes will resonate with everyone who loves airplanes.
Filled with Martha’s adventures and misadventures, Unusual Attitudes enables readers to accompany her as she flies a variety of popular and not-so-popular aircraft. From her tales as an FAA examiner to her experience operating Miss Martha’s Flying School to unforgettable flights with whom Martha calls her “forever friends” in aviation, she shares it all with you. Interspersed with the stories is some real-life advice from Martha, valuable to those who interact with flight instructors, the FAA, and other airplane owners and pilots. Her opinions may anger you; these stories may make you laugh or cry, but each chapter of Unusual Attitudes is filled with the passion that Martha brings to her flying.
Whether you read the chapters in order or skip around for a favorite, readers will always be entertained as Martha spins another tale and draws you into her aviation life. Unusual Attitudes shows why Martha Lunken is one of aviation’s most popular columnists, sure to be appreciated by those who enjoy reading, and re-reading, a great airplane story.
Approximately 285 pages, including 8-page color photo section.
Martha Lunken
Martha Lunken fell in love with airplanes and age 9 and has been telling stories about them ever since. In her long love affair with flying, she has been a flight instructor, owned a flight school, owned a variety of airplanes and worked for the FAA in Chicago and Cincinnati. She has an ATP, airplane single and multi-engine land and sea, and a commercial hot air balloon rating. She's type rated in the Lockheed 18, DC-3 and SA-227 aircraft. Martha’s honesty and humor, along with her willingness to call ‘em as she sees ‘em have garnered the devotion of Martha fans worldwide.