Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness on Your Ascent to Greatness

Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness on Your Ascent to Greatness

by Lt Colonel Dan Rooney
Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness on Your Ascent to Greatness

Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness on Your Ascent to Greatness

by Lt Colonel Dan Rooney

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“Lt Colonel Dan Rooney is a true patriot who serves our country with courage and honor.”—George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States 

F-16 fighter pilot, American hero, Folds of Honor founder, PGA professional, and inspirational family man Dan Rooney delivers a motivational code for living to help ordinary people ascend to their highest level in life.

Part spiritual guide and part call-to-action, Fly Into the Wind combines Lt Colonel Rooney’s fighter pilot stories with his discovery of faith and purpose in order to help each reader achieve a philosophy he calls CAVU, after the Air Force acronym that stands for “ceiling and visibility unrestricted.” CAVU describes the perfect conditions for flying a fighter jet, when steel-blue skies invite pilots to spread their wings like supersonic eagles. In today’s world of identity politics, fractured racial relations, and external turmoil, Rooney’s book will show how all of us are connected by God in more ways than we realize, and that the path to fulfillment begins with changing ourselves in order to better one another.

From the outside, Lieutenant Colonel Dan “Noonan” Rooney was living the American Dream: he was an F-16 fighter pilot, PGA Professional, husband to his college sweetheart, and father of five daughters. His position in life should have been a blessing. But a near-tragic mishap while piloting his F-16 triggered an ominous life storm that altered his trajectory and filled him with self-doubt.

Realizing that a jet takes off into the wind because it requires resistance over its wings to fly, Lt Colonel Rooney’s attitude toward the resistance he encountered in his life changed from resentment to humble introspection. Hyper-focused on the precise areas that are immediately under your control, CAVU is a disciplined approach to each day that will help you reshape, motivate, prioritize, and ultimately thrive. In Fly Into the Wind, Lt. Colonel Rooney breaks down CAVU into ten unique lines of effort (LOE), with each LOE building upon the previous one to provide a positive vector toward a new way of living. Along this enlightened path, readers will discover a renewed belief in themselves and the art of the possible. The time for self-discovery and ultimate achievement begins now. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780062966094
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/17/2020
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
Sales rank: 268,265
File size: 19 MB
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About the Author

Lt Col Dan Rooney is the founder of the Folds of Honor, an F-16 Fighter Pilot (1,800 hours of flight time) with 3 combat tours in Iraq, and a PGA Golf Professional. He is a Fox News contributor and host of the Fox Nation's series Fly Into the Wind. As an author he has written two books, A Patriot's Calling: Living Life between Fear and Faith and Fly Into the Wind: How to Harness Faith and Fearlessness On Your Ascent to Greatness. Lt Col Rooney was the motivational team speaker for two US Ryder Cup teams.

He has been recognized as one of People magazine's "Heroes of the Year", Money magazine's "Hero of the Year" and ABC World News Tonight's "Persons of the Year." He was a CNN Hero and awarded the Fox Nation Ultimate Patriot Award.

He lives in Owasso, Oklahoma with his wife, five daughters, and three dogs.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Feherty xi

Author's Note xvii

1 Broken Wings 1

2 Quintessence 21

3 Synchronicity 37

4 Volition 55

5 Parasitic Drag 71

6 Chair Flying 93

7 EM Curve 105

8 Service Before Self 115

9 Sons of Thunder 131

10 Force Multiply 151

11 Go Before You're Ready 181

12 Field Forward 199

13 Epilogue: New Beginnings 213

Terms Only Fighter Pilots Understand 223

Acknowledgments 231

Bibliography 235

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