{"product_id":"another-day-like-yesterday","title":"Another Day Like Yesterday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/sunday\/audio\/2019047831\/guy-clapshaw-another-day-like-yesterday\" title=\"Click here to visit RNZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ewww.rnz.co.nz interview on Sunday\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother Day Like Yesterday is a collection of rollicking\u003cbr\u003etales – some tall, most true – from Guy Clapshaw’s early\u003cbr\u003edays flying for Air New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the mid-1960s, the airline had just begun to expand from Tasman Empire Airways, a tiny three-aeroplane regional airline into Air New Zealand, the international giant it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like the airline itself, this book flits around New Zealand, sweeps across the vastness of Australia, island hops around the Pacific and then heads for the hustle and bustle of Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet at a time when air travel wasn’t just another mode of transport, the book’s pages hum with larger-than-life characters, tricky customers, sticky situations and laugh-out-loud scenarios.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGuy Clapshaw learned to fly in the post-war Royal Air Force, before going into civil charter flying. Four years spent flying antiquated, badly maintained aircraft and being expected to bend the rules when bad weather grounded the competition, persuaded him to join a respectful scheduled airline - Air New Zealand - where aircrew were properly trained and paid regularly, and the planes were modern and well-maintained. Now in his eighties, Guy is working on his next book and can't wait to see how it ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e360 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catch Phrase Media NZ Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46538219585686,"sku":"9780473780210","price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0587\/4978\/0118\/files\/large_9780473780210.jpg?v=1787344848","url":"https:\/\/www.tawabooksandpost.co.nz\/products\/another-day-like-yesterday","provider":"Tawa Books \u0026 Post","version":"1.0","type":"link"}