One Trip Too Many - A Pilot's Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat Over Laos and Vietnam

By: Wayne Warner

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

One Trip Too Many, A Pilot’s Memoirs of 38 Months in Combat over Laos and Vietnam, is an autobiography about my life as a pilot in Southeast Asia during the conflict in Vietnam. It is primarily a story to share with family and friends about my personal involvement in the conflict and the turbulent decade of the 60s and does not attempt to question the politics of the era. It begins with a brief description of my quest to gain admittance to the United States Air Force Academy, my four years at the Academy, and the subsequent year of pilot training. I flew three different types of aircraft in combat and the book provides insight into the training that took place for the C-130 Hercules, the F-105 Thunderchief, and the A-1 Skyraider. Each of the three tours in combat over Laos and Vietnam is described with emphasis on the more memorable flights including a bailout in the A-1 and the final crash on takeoff that ended my active duty Air Force career. My time in various hospitals is described at the end of the book and the epilogue tells briefly of my life after retirement from the United States Air Force. The book has been described as a combination of Band of Brothers, Top Gun, and Forrest Gump.

Great details, make the story come to life!

riveting stories...great details loved the action descriptions.., Flights... all of it thank you so much !!

Virtual voice decent on this one...

I suppose that without virtual voice we could not listen to any of this book but it is far to distracting. Suff like KIA, killed in action read as Kia, the car company. Lead, as in the metal, vs lead as in the leader. 9mm a nine-millimeters, instead of 9 millimeter. Give us a real narrator.

A straightforward, no nonsense account of the highlights of an exemplary Air Force career.

Great storytelling of an action filled 10 year Air Force pilot’s service. The author’s grit and determination lead to an amazingly diverse flying career under adverse conditions during the was in SE Asia.

I found the book authoritative, well researched and well written. My audiobook “read” was only marred by the inability of “Virtual Voice” to deal with aircraft and unit numerical designations and its inability to pronounce Vietnamese names.

Great story, but the reading was horrible.

This is worth the read, but the machine reading is really bad. Calling migs meeges, is just one example that was very distracting.

The self facing and private review of his flying as well as his personal life and interaction with other pilots

Narration is very detailed in recounting the names and ranks of every airman as as well as interacted this also extends to the aircraft manufacturer and performance and type, but also they serial assign id numbers.

One too many

I liked this book. The story line was very good. I have read many books on the Vietnam war and this one is one of the better ones. The virtual voice was a disservice to the author's story. The many mispronunciations were distracting and out right pathetic. I would buy this, but not with the virtual voice narration. Meegess (Migs?) and many other problems. Chapter 12 was not in the table of contents. I would not recommend this audible book. Buy the print version of the book instead.

Story was great.

The virtual voice did ok but was not great with technical details. Numbers and such.

great read...felt bad at the end..heroic pilot..forced to settle in later life

amazing story very interesting computer audio was good too. so what if the virtual audio said meeeges instead of Migs. we all knew what he meant..reading was better than some of the human readers I have hesrd

Really good book.

Very good book. It’s auto narration so that’s its only drawback . If they could work on that would be a great book.

Not going to take away from the story

One of the best Vietnam air war stories I’ve listened to, to date. That being said, I’ve listened to eight or nine books with AI reading. This is by far the worst!
The plural of a MiG fighter is MiG’s, not mee gees. The lead pilot is lead, not lead as in heavy metal. POW was right. MIA was right. KIA was pronounced like the car brand. BOQ is just that. B O Q. Not boke those are just the ones that popped into my head. But a lot of others were in there as well. I’m glad it was a very powerful story that stood on its own