The stories of the army flying the dangerous Hump between India and China during WWII have been told. Now for the first time you can read the stories of how the civilian pilots flew it and the lives they led, two weeks a month, as the highest paid pilots in the world while living in Calcutta, India one of the poorest places in the world. pleasures of the Orient. The highest death rate of transport captains ever in the history of aviation developed boys into men in a unbelievable short period of time. Flying the Hump didn't ...
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The stories of the army flying the dangerous Hump between India and China during WWII have been told. Now for the first time you can read the stories of how the civilian pilots flew it and the lives they led, two weeks a month, as the highest paid pilots in the world while living in Calcutta, India one of the poorest places in the world. pleasures of the Orient. The highest death rate of transport captains ever in the history of aviation developed boys into men in a unbelievable short period of time. Flying the Hump didn't produce cripples, it was being blown away completely with only a toast and an empty chair where he ate his last meal marked the finish. No taps, no ceremony, no grave, no grave stone, only memories but memories without tears as we climbed in the transports in the middle of the night and took off in a blinding monsoon rain storm without a crew, a professional pilot who knows no fear flying alone in the vastness of the Himalayas.
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