A Lifetime in the Sky
From Navy pilot to aviation veteran — storytelling takes flight.
John J. Domina grew up on Long Island and earned a degree in journalism... He served eight years in the Navy and logged over 21,000 flight hours across a 41-year flying career.
✈ 21,000+ Flight Hours
🎖 8 Years U.S. Navy
🛫 41 Years Flying
📘 Debut Author
About the Book
The Goodflyers is a psychological aviation thriller set in and around the Navy’s elite flight school in Pensacola, Florida, 1987. It follows a group of top-notch flight instructors, led by Lieutenants Frank Nicolosi and Joe Christmas, and their students who are confined in a system that demands perfection. Where failure is unforgiven. Competition between two squadrons turns ugly, and the quest to be the best becomes toxic and leads to moral decay. Beneath the surface, cracks begin to show. A colossal failure at the command level rocks the squadron and rips a family apart. A pilot disappears and a student crosses a line he can never walk back. Unexpected love affairs exasperate matters and hostilities spill onto the beaches, the bars, and establishments around Pensacola. The quest for Wings of Gold becomes a battle for survival both in the air and on the ground in a world where loyalty, ambition and morality collide.
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Elite World, Zero Margin for Error
Set in the Navy’s brutal flight school in Pensacola, Florida, perfection isn’t expected. It’s demanded.
02
Rivalry Turns Personal
Two squadrons push competition so far that professionalism turns into personal war.
03
Leaders on the Edge
Nicolosi and Christmas build a legendary team while slowly unraveling under impossible pressure.
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