Book excerpt: This collection of stories is about individuals who have been connected with aviation and flying. The common link in these stories is that all but one of them are about personalities, their characters, their challenges, and how attachment to the joys of flying can lead to problems. The status quo in the air arena over Syria and Iraq is upset by a fighter pilot. The results of his actions set off international action and he is referred to as the Rogue Fighter Pilot.The El Nino Spring delves deep into the dysfunctional relationships that develop after a NASA flight test center is left with memories of greater days and more entrepreneurial past that led to manned space programs. In Amends, a heroic combat pilot falls into hard times after his rescue from North Vietnam during the bombing campaign of the mid-sixties. In the view of his contemporaries he is a hero-a view not shared by others. The Ferris Wheel at Casa Grande involves a mystery about parentage.In The Opal Ring, client privilege becomes a dangerous element to a young woman lawyer.