Overview

Features

• As a teenager, hitchhiking from London to Cape Town
• Becoming one of the world’s top aerobatic pilots and making his own very successful aerobatic aircraft
• Buying the first privately owned Russian aeroplane in the West and then acting as a sales agent for Sukhoi
• Selling over 450 aircraft and the world’s only privately-owned Harrier jet fighter
• Establishing a barely-credible business sending people from the West to fly front-line Russian jet fighters
• Totally restoring three significant English listed country houses and a run-down tea estate in Sri Lanka
• Owning a wide variety of cars from old bangers to Jaguar XKs, vintage Rolls-Royces to modern Ferraris

Specifications

• Jacketed Hardback
• Pages: 376
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 170 mm,
• Weight (all printed on art-paper): 2.8lbs
• Included With over 210 color, black and white photographs and illustrations.

Benefits

• Throughout, his life been anything but straightforward, with a fair share of crashes and calamities. Financially, he narrowly avoided meltdown in the ruinous Lloyds insurance crash of the 1990s; he successfully faced up to the Russian Mafia and was even served with an Interpol arrest warrant! Most dramatic was the structural failure of his aerobatic plane during a public display resulting in a barely-survivable, catastrophic accident, leading to three months in a hospital bed.
• In his life he lived in a very sanitized and protected world and it is refreshing to read this story about a man who has been prepared to take risks and also to accept the consequences of them, whether positive or negative. A thrilling, real-life tale.