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Jerry Grayson is an typical man who selected an extraordinary career. At age group 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot ever before to serve in the Royal Navy. By age group 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the navy's search-and-rescue pilots, getting to work is both an excitement and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who have ditched in the ocean, saving eager survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously unwell crewman from the deck of an nuclear-armed submarine that is participating in a cat-and-mouse game with the Soviet navy, Jerry Grayson has resided a life of unequalled excitement and excitement. His finest hour emerged during the infamous Fastnet Yacht Competition of 1979, in which 25 yachts were lost. Whenever a catastrophic surprise enveloped the rivals he and his staff pressed their Wessex helicopter to its definite limits and put their own lives in danger, soaring into hurricane-force winds to winch shipwrecked sailors from heaving, tempestuous seas. An investiture at Buckingham Palace with her majesty the queen was the effect. Being a save pilot is overly busy because there is no choice. Lives are at stake, and pilots must move and think fast. Jerry Grayson's inside view of the heroic service is really as inspirational as it is celebratory. Excitingly advised, frequently funny, but also very poignant, Jerry's report is not an account of just one single man's deeds - it is a salute to all or any the women and men he caused who were able to flip tragedies into triumphs.
