Finding Love on the Flight Line

by Robert H Cherny

Overview

After being rescued by helicopter from a yacht, the elderly owner of an air charter company sets his grandson up on a date with the paramedic who rescued him. The grandson has recently assumed the manager position at the charter company's latest depot at the same airport where the paramedic is stationed. Whether one considers their first weekend together a success depends entirely on one's viewpoint. They like each other, but the family hates her. She reciprocates.
The air charter company's chief pilot, a retired Air Force Colonel, recognizes that the paramedic and the grandson are not well matched but that the charter company's chief mechanic is a much better option for the paramedic. Her attempts at matchmaking are met with limited success until a pivotal event occurs half a year after the helicopter rescue.
Meanwhile, an attorney, a refugee from his father's established Chicago law firm, who is the county's agent for the airport properties, invites his sister, a successful entrepreneur with a 3D Printing business, to move her company to the airport he manages. Since her company relies heavily on contract air courier services to deliver the specialized parts she produces, having an air charter company on the same property should give her a significant competitive advantage.
The attorney's sister's new target market is 3D-printed bones and joints. The paramedic's sister is an orthopedic surgeon and joins the enterprise.
So, we now have three potential couples. They take their sweet time sorting it all out. They perform airborne rescues, weather a hurricane, produce an airshow, support humanitarian causes, and grow the local family as relatives and friends join the synergy.
The story is easy to read and contains nothing that anyone except followers of Governor Greg Abbott or Donald Trump should find offensive.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798224662074
Publisher:	Robert H Cherny
Publication date:	04/05/2025
Pages:	476
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Writing has always gotten me in trouble. Still does.

I have been a fan of science and speculative fiction since I found it in the young people's section of the library. In grade school, I devoured works by Heinlein, Norton, Asimov, and Huxley among others. By the time I had finished high school, I had read every science fiction book in the town's library.

When I was in high school I wrote short stories instead of paying attention in math class. This did not help my math grade and would have serious consequences a few years later.

In college, I could be counted on for the divergent opinion. This was after my failed math forced a complete redirection of my life plan. A disastrous Freshman year at Brandeis University, forced a reevaluation of reading materials. Switching majors to theater brought exposure to Shaw, Strindberg, Ibsen, Stoppard, Pinter, Shakespeare, and a host of young would-be playwrights. As a technical theater major, I found that the quantity of material to which I was exposed often surpassed the quality. Too busy to do any writing of his own, I devoted his time to supporting the efforts of others.

The Vietnam War brought a tour of duty in South Carolina and the opportunity to begin graduate work at the University of South Carolina. While in the Air Force, my anti-war sentiments did not become an issue, because I kept them secret. I did no writing except for my graduate school classes which I took while still in service. Even here, I was ever the contrarian, unwilling or unable to go where the others went. Fortunately, as a design major, my writing was of less concern than my draftsmanship. The war ended and with less than a month to go on my MA, and no job opportunities in sight, I left school lacking only my thesis and took a paying job at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus World in Haines City Florida Master's degrees in the theater were not worth much in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Fortunately, through a series of unlikely coincidences, I landed a job as technical director of the then brand new Tupperware Convention Center. At the time, it was the only full-time convention center in Central Florida. I would stay there for twenty years earning an MBA along the way although my work schedule left little time for either reading or writing except for articles in technical journals.

My sudden departure from Tupperware provided the time to return to reading and writing...