Publisher - Scholastic
Author - Jim Eldridge
Binding - Paperback
Pages - 160
Size - 17cm x 13cm
 
Age - 9+

Product weight 250g



 

June 1916

My plane began to fall out of the sky and I went into reflex action, remembering the many times I'd practised "what to do in the event of engine failure". Only this was not just a failed engine, this was a dead engine. And I was 10,000 feet above the ground in a machine that was suddenly heavier than the air I was flying in. I was fighting a losing battle against gravity. And then an even bigger horror...the German's bullets had cut through my fuel line and I was being sprayed with gasoline. It was every pilot's nightmare to be trapped in a burning plane...

While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events and real people, Jack Fairfax is a fictional character created by the author and his story is a work of fiction.