The Adventures of Tommy the Texan© and Captain Billy: Back to the Beginning

By William Moyle and David C. Moyle

Tommy the Texan is an advanced training T-6 airplane who lives in an airport hangar in Danbury, Connecticut, and longs to fly again. When retired airplane pilot, Captain Billy, purchases him and begins rebuilding him, Tommy the Texan looks forward to Billys visits when he and his friends put on coffee and tell stories of great adventures in the big blue sky.

As a special connection builds between Tommy and Billy, the time arrives when Tommy is finally ready to fly. Not long after Billy climbs into the cockpit, starts Tommys engine, and taxis to the runway, man and machine soar to the sky where they begin making memories and Tommy finally has the chance to experience his own great adventures once again.

The Adventures of Tommy the Texan and Captain Billy brings to life the warm relationship between a pilot and his plane as they experience the excitement and joys of flying together.

Captain Billy and Tommy the Texan are the dynamic duo that will inspire future generations to fly.

Erika Armstrong, ATP, Author of

A Chick in the Cockpit

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Jun 27, 2017
• ISBN: 9781480848795

William Moyle

William “Captain Billy” Moyle started flying at the age of fourteen. Since then, he has nurtured his passion for flying and education, teaching aviation and flying aircraft from an Aeronca Champ to a Douglas DC-8. Now retired, he hopes his juvenile novel series will both inspire and educate today’s youth in aviation and life. This is his second book. Moyle is also the author of The Adventures of Tommy the Texan and Captain Billy: Back to the Beginning.

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Copyright © 2017 William Captain Billy Moyle.

David C. Moyle, Illustrator

Laura E. O’Connor, Editor

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ISBN: 978-1-4808-4880-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-4878-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4808-4879-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017909414

Archway Publishing rev. date: 6/23/2017

Table of Contents

Foreword

Dedication

Epigraph

Author’s Note

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Danbury Airport, Tommy’s Home

Chapter 2 The End of a Good Day

Chapter 3 Tommy Remembers

Chapter 4 Tommy Meets Captain Billy

Chapter 5 Ready to Fly Again

Chapter 6 Airborne Once More

Chapter 7 It’s a Deal!

Chapter 8 Heading for New Horizons

Glossary

Reader’s Guide

Charts, Specs & Diagrams

Phantom View Items

T-6 Radial Engine

About the Author

Foreword

It takes just a moment for a child to believe that they can accomplish the impossible, but someone has to show them first. Captain Bill Moyle puts the idea of taking to the sky into any child that reads Tommy the Texan. With enthusiasm and a little hard work, Captain Billy and Tommy the Texan are the dynamic duo that will inspire future generations to fly. -Erika Armstrong, ATP, Author of A