Ben Mukkala, Author: The Gift of Wings: An Autobiography of a Life in the Sky

The Gift of Wings: An Autobiography of a Life in the Sky. From a farm-plow to Supersonic flight in the United States Air Force! From sergeant to cadet to fledgling flyer and on to Command Pilot! Trainers, fighters, bombers, transports and anything between! Come fly with me! Enjoy! 5.5 x 8.5 - 310 pages - Paperback - large print Marquette (MI) native Ben Mukkala, author of The Gift of Wings: An Autobiography of a Life in the Sky is made of tough stuff. One has to be tough to survive Marquette Winters. Mukkala spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force from 1950-1970. In Gift Mukkala writes of his military flying experience. He is more literal than literary; there s more humor than hubris. Gift is a combination of Will Rogers wit and test pilot Chuck Yeager s this-is-how-it-was laconicism. It s hard to put the book down. It is what the Germans call echt the real thing or what we call the Right Stuff. --Reviewed by Javan Kienzle, Detroit Free PressIn 50 short chapters, Mukkala discusses his ent