Thunder in the Tummy! The Hilarious Flying Adventures of a Private Pilot
By Joel Elman
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Do you look up at small airplanes as they fly overhead? Have you ever wondered what goes on in the cockpit? On the ground at a general aviation airport? In the minds of private pilots? THUNDER IN THE TUMMY! is a collection of the best of the best short stories which, during the latter part of the last millennium, were published in Pacific Flyer, Atlantic Flyer, American Aviator, Southern Aviator and on DIALOG!, the award-winning computer bulletin board.
What people are saying about THUNDER IN THE TUMMY!
THUNDER IN THE TUMMY! — The winner of the Squarfius Maximus Award for marvelous writing. “The book is hilarious, varied, insightful, entertaining and wholesome. It is also educational, but with a vengeance. A remarkable achievement.”
—Lorenzo Q. Squarf, Flamekeeper of Western Civilization
THUNDER IN THE TUMMY! — Better in the tummy than in the upholstery! It is great fun to read! Flying adventure with a riotous, literate, and self-effacing twist.”
—Mordecai Swiffle, the oldest living student pilot in the world
THUNDER IN THE TUMMY! — All women whose significant others are pilots should have lollypops in their purses at all times. Read this book and you will know why.”
—Squishalie Doodlebug Provolone, Significant Other
“Laugh out loud!” —Flying Farnsworth
“Absolutely delightful!” —Fearless Freddy
“I roared twice as much as the other guys!” —Multi-Engine McGoo
“I am thinking Pulitzer, maybe even a Nobel Prize!” —Anonymous, but sincere
Joel Elman
Joel Elman, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned a Liberal Arts degree from Boston University; from there he attended Brown University Graduate School, believing that a Ph.D. in Russian would enable him to escape the gravitational pull of ignorance and poverty. He left Brown after completing his first year of advanced study, having made the stunning discovery that ignorance and poverty are not inextricably linked. Mr. Elman also concluded that the study of Old Church Slavonic, and the need to sound like one is gargling oysters in order to pronounce it correctly, was not relevant to modern life or his desire to pass himself off as an English gentleman. Mr. Elman then earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and, like every other graduate in the history of that splendid institution, was informed by an anonymous official that he was in the top third of his class. His unfinished poem entitled “God Bless Harvard” has been under construction for the past 36 years. His post-graduate role in American industry as a dynamic executive is legendary, but irrelevant to his heroic flying adventures, and has been omitted to make space for his photo. A licensed pilot for over four decades, Mr. Elman owns and pilots his own airplane. Many of the short stories in this book previously appeared in major flying magazines, a number of which are listed on the back cover. If you have this book in your hands and are wondering whether you should buy it, let us urge you to splurge. If you don’t like the book, you can probably get your money back from the author who is sensitive about such things, thus creating a standard in the publishing world that not even the Bible has attained.
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