Inside Marine One: 4 U.S. Presidents, One Proud Marine, and the World’s Most Wonderful Helicopter

Col. Ray “Frenchy” L’Heureux all the time dreamed of deliver a pilot. Rising up, he constructed airplane fashions and dreamed about hovering over the earth. When he was twelve, his mother handled him to a flying lesson on the native airfield. Taken on a brief flight by an teacher and allowed to function the controls for a part of the flight, he was hooked without end. It wasn’t till he was operating low on school funds and noticed a recruiter at his school that he joined the Marines and commenced the journey in direction of his dream from Parris Island to Bravo Firm and, then, officer coaching faculty. At some point at an airfield when President Reagan landed on this technique to a fundraiser, Frenchy’s life modified without end when encountered HMX1, the squadron that flies the President in Marine One. When he noticed the white-topped Sea King and White Hawk helicopters, he was decided to grow to be a part of that elite group. Inside Marine One is Col. L’Heureux’s inspiring story of a younger man who dreamed of flying, educated, studied and labored arduous to grow to be the pilot who ended up serving 4 US Presidents – George H.W. Bush, Invoice Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It is also a private guided tour contained in the world’s most well-known helicopter by a person who is aware of that flying machine higher than another. Inside Marine One is a superb American success story of a younger boy who dreamed massive, labored arduous and eventually flew the President of america as his primary passenger.