Boarding an airliner, do you ever glance to your left for a quick peek into the cockpit? And do you wonder what it's like up there with your hands and feet on the controls, doing all the things commercial pilots do?

What about those military pilots who put themselves in harm's way to protect the freedoms we enjoy? Are you curious about what it's like to strap on one of those magnificent flying machines?

Tosh McIntosh knows. With over forty years as a professional aviator in tactical fighters and commercial jets, he puts you in the cockpit for a glimpse of his world as seen through the lens of personal experience.

Book One of Words On My Wings begins with the fickle role of fate in setting the course of Tosh's career, covers the early days of learning to fly light aircraft, and describes the initial portion of his Undergraduate Pilot Training with the United States Air Force.

Subsequent books in the series will cover the stages of his military and civilian careers and the transition to sport aviation after retirement from professional aviation.

Military: The remainder of Undergraduate Pilot Training; F-4 Phantom combat crew training and his first tour in Vietnam; flying the F-102 Delta Dart and F-101 Voodoo with the Air Defense Command; return to the F-4 and another combat tour in Vietnam; duty as an F-4 instructor pilot; graduation from the USAF Fighter Weapons Instructor Course (FWIC); selection as a FWIC instructor and lead pilot for development of the Pave Spike Laser Target Designator System (smart bomb) course at the Weapons School; another tour in the Pacific Theater as the Wing Weapons and Tactics Officer of the first combat-ready Pave Spike F-4 units; duty as operations officer at the F-4 FWIC; and finally, a tour as Active Duty Advisor to a new United States Air Force Reserve F-4 unit that he helped build from the ground up in Austin, Texas.

Civilian: Commercial airline pilot and corporate/personal executive jet pilot for another 20 years of professional aviation.

Tosh owns an experimental sport aircraft to indulge his passion for the world of flight. He is the author of the mystery-thrillers Pilot Error and Red Line; the Science Fiction novel Oasis, and Book One of Wings On My Words, tales from the writer's desk.

Visit him online at toshmcintosh.com.
About the Author: Tosh McIntosh's Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology is analogous to the turn signal on a classic, 1960s automobile owned since new by the kind of inconsiderate driver we all love to hate. It's never been used. Following graduation from the University of Washington in Seattle, Tosh entered the Air Force with the intention of serving a four-year commitment as a pilot before deciding what he really wanted to do with the remainder of his professional life. One ride in a jet trainer consigned that plan to the scrap heap. Twenty years of flying jet fighters (including two combat tours) remain the highlight of his aviation career. Another ten years as a commercial airline pilot, followed by ten more years flying corporate jets, and currently the enjoyment of sport aviation in light aircraft, have embedded within him a passion for sharing with others his unique perspective of what it means to be an aviator. From an early age spent watching his father submit articles to magazines, Tosh has maintained a love-affair with writing. He began his first novel while flying for an airline and learned the hard way that premature submissions to agents can result in an almost irresistible urge to give up. But he persevered, and in 2011 received requests for three full manuscripts and one partial of his first novel, Pilot Error. While waiting for the agents to offer representation or reject, he taught himself to prepare the manuscript for conversion to eBook and print formats and designed covers for both. Frustrated with waiting and eager to take control of his own writing destiny, he ultimately removed the novel from consideration and rushed headlong into the world of indie publishing. Tosh's novels interweave a life-long fascination with writing and thousands of flight hours in pursuit of one goal: to create stories that entertain and put readers up close and personal within his world of the cockpit. The second-in-series novel Red Line will be published in the Fall of 2012. His non-fiction explores writing and aviating in symbolic formation with Wings On My Words, tales from the writer's desk, and now Words On My Wings, tales from the cockpit. Visit him online at toshmcintosh.com.