ELY AIR LINES

Select Stories from 10 Years

of a Weekly Column

Volumes 1 & 2

by

Mike Ely and Linda Street-Ely

Genre: Nonfiction

Categories: Short Stories / Short Stories / Aviation

Publisher: Paper Airplane Publishing, LLC

Date of Publication: January 29, 2020

Number of Pages: Volume 1:350, Volume 2: 330 pages

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Buckle up and fly with Mike and Linda Ely to discover amazing people, interesting places, and the conquest of flight. Since 2007, readers have enjoyed engaging articles weekly in the newspaper column, Ely Air Lines. Now you can step aboard to enjoy a collection of stories that explore the vast realm of the flyer’s world.

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I have known a few pilots in my life and all of them seem to have the same love and fervor for the craft as is displayed in these stories from Mike and Linda’s column. While these stories are recent tellings (in the last two decades), the history of the pilots spans a lifetime.

Small town airports are vital to the community, and the town of Liberty is no different. It may be close to Houston, but if you live in Texas or have ever visited here, you know this is a large state and it can take several hours to get from one place to another even if they don’t look that far apart on the map. Having an airport within a smaller community can be the difference between life and death in some cases. I enjoyed learning how this airport came into existence and is serving the community to this day.

I was able to enjoy volume 1 of the two books and the stories inside had me enthralled from page to page and story to story. I don’t know if I have a favorite, but I truly enjoyed the stories about those that were bitten by the flying bug at a very early age. There are multiple stories about young flyers and how they would give things up just to be around planes and pilots. I learned so much from these pilots from the different aircraft they flew, dangerous or strange situations they found themselves in, and even how they gave of their time to help others that needed their assistance. There were several pilots that volunteered for organizations that flew those that need treatment to larger cities since their bodies couldn’t handle riding on a commercial airline. I admire and appreciate their generosity.

There are even stories about Mike and Linda’s adventures. I can see why owning your own plane can be an adventure because you can take off any time you wish for a long weekend or even a day and visit another part of the country. The detail that they share makes me want to visit some of these locations in the Northeast and even the Pacific Northwest. I chuckled when they described flying into some of these smaller airports during football season. Knowing how crazy fans can be, I can only imagine how energetic those towns were on game day.  I relished the story that Linda told about a trip to where her mother grew up and the memories she created with her mom and sister. It also sent her down a rabbit hole searching for photos of the house her mother grew up in since it was demolished many years ago.

This book is wonderful when you have just a short time to read and don’t want to dive into a longer novel. These short stories from their column bring to life what it is like to soar through the wild blue yonder. We give it 4 paws up.

Mike Ely has logged thousands of hours over more than forty years as a professional pilot. He holds an airline transport pilot certificate with multiple type ratings and a flight instructor certificate. Mike has taught people to fly in small single-engine airplanes, gliders, turboprops, and corporate jets. As a freight pilot and an international corporate pilot, he has flown through all kinds of weather, to many places, both exotic and boring. His love for writing was instilled by his father at an early age.

Linda Street-Ely is an award-winning, multi-genre author and playwright. She also holds an airline transport pilot certificate, a commercial seaplane certificate, and a tailwheel endorsement. She has air raced all over the U.S., including four times in the historic all-women’s transcontinental Air Race Classic. Besides flying, Linda has a keen appreciation for great storytelling. She loves to travel the world, meet people, and learn about other cultures because she believes great stories are everywhere.

Together, Linda and Mike are “Team Ely,” five-time National Champions of the Sport Air Racing League, racing their Grumman Cheetah, named the “Elyminator,” and dubbed “The Fastest Cheetah in the Known Universe.” They live in Liberty, Texas.

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