MIGHTY HANDS

About the Book

Following the completion of an aerobatic maneuver during an airshow in my MiG-15, I was doing a repositioning turn known in aviator parlance as a tuck under break. At approximately 50 feet above the ground and moving at close to 300 miles per hour, upside down and halfway through a roll, with particularly poor timing the (improperly re-installed) instrument panel somehow decided that now would be an appropriate time to release itself onto my feet and lap. Despite all the skill I could muster, momentum inertia and gravity were winning the fight as I, once again, found myself bracing for what I hoped would be a painless demise. And again, I was miraculously pulled from an imminent death by what can only be described as divine intervention – God’s Mighty Hands. This is the story of a life punctuated by victory over adversity through the grace of God.

About the Author

Paul Entrekin was a varsity football letterman at Auburn University in Coach Ralph “Shug” Jordan’s last senior class, a United States Marine Corps officer designated a naval aviator in 1980, became the world’s first private owner and pilot of a Russian MiG aircraft and an airshow pilot who performed flight demonstrations across North America entertaining millions of spectators while also participating in motion picture, television and government contracts.

He has flown more than 16,000 hours in 38 types of rotary and fixed wing aircraft ranging from the BD-5J micro jet to the Boeing 777 which he flew for Delta Airlines.

He holds multiple U.S. and world airspeed records and is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

Paul is an Eagle Scout, Rotarian and Scottish Rite Mason in addition to being an avid outdoorsman.