SCOTT D. MCDONALD
PISTONS AND PROPELLERS SERIES
This book series follows some colorful characters flying and maintaining radial-engine powered transports saved from the scrap yard to perform hardscrabble, unglamorous work like firefighting, hauling cargo in Alaska and the Caribbean, and disaster relief in third world countries.
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BLENDERS AND BULLETS
The first pilot procedural from Scott D. McDonald. Collie Bonnabell is a world-weary mercenary pilot who has flown all over the world, delivering relief supplies to war-torn countries, dropping retardant on wildfires, and sometimes hauling munitions without an end user certificate. Now he just wants to pile up a little nest egg and semi-retire on a third-world beach. He has a small fleet of worn out cargo airplanes in south Texas and he hires Brian and Ray to run black market televisions into Mexico to avoid tariffs. This is profitable but dangerous. There are double-crosses, narrow escapes with bullets flying, and crash landings. To purchase, copy and paste https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735478199
WINDWARD
This is Ray’s story as he leaves Texas and drives his beater Chevy to Miami, where he has heard there are shoestring cargo outfits using old four-engine transports to haul cargo to Caribbean islands, with very little regulation due to a loophole in the FAA rules. Unable to find a full-time job, Ray picks up a trip at a time for different operators, some of them sketchy. He plans to move on to Alaska but he gradually falls in love with Florida’s natural world. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D1WR7X13
LOW LEVEL
Collie and his partner Marv try to go straight and turn SkyDog into a legitimate business. Collie borrows too much money on a long shot attempt to convert some retired military transports into luxurious executive airplanes. They have stopped running contraband over the border but suddenly they are asked to make a trip south to rescue a young girl and her aunt who have been targeted by a cartel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DCTKC767
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FAIR CHASE and OTHER STORIES includes a novella about a lazy private eye in Phoenix, and eight short stories about big game hunting, skydiving, petty criminals, and a couple of stories set during the Great Depression.
About Scott mcdonald
Scott dropped skydivers and towed gliders for years, while doing seasonal ag flying in the summers. He ended up flying passengers all over the world in wide body jets.
PISTONS AND PROPELLERS is his series of novels depicting the last years of the great prop transports like Constellations and DC-6s.