BOOKS
In the next few days we will be publishing our first two books, Mad Minds and Tango, Tango, Foxtrot on Amazon. They will both be available in Kindle and paperback. Give us a look!
In Mad Minds: The Lunacy Behind Building Airplanes, meet the mavericks, misfits, and mad geniuses who actually build the airplanes you fly in.
As a former contract engineer, world traveler, problem solver and yes, reluctant grown-up, I throw open the hangar doors on a world most passengers never see. Drawing on 45 years in aircraft engineering, I serve up eight short, true, and gloriously unhinged stories from my early years in aerospace: the wildcat “job shopper” contract engineers who chased 80-hour weeks and triple pay across the country, and the wildfires, bankruptcies, flying squirrels, and watermelon diplomacy that somehow all came with the job.
Funny, gritty, and honest, this is a fast, front-row read on the chaos, camaraderie, and sheer lunacy of building commercial aircraft — from the Douglas DC-10 to the Boeing 767 and beyond, from Seattle to Santa Barbara to Indonesia and everywhere in between.
If you’ve ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes of commercial aviation — and laughed at how insane it sounds — this one’s for you.
Mad Minds is a short, standalone collection and the perfect lead-in to my full-length aviation memoir, Tango, Tango, Foxtrot. Read the origin story first, then buckle up for the whole wild ride.
Tango, Tango, Foxtrot: Aviation’s Pirates, Clowns, Carpetbaggers, and Cons, is Tim Morgan’s wild and woolly journey through the world of aircraft and aviation entrepreneurship.
Behind every sleek aircraft and on-time departure is a world most passengers never see — high-stakes projects, impossible deadlines, and the unforgettable characters who make or break them.
Tango, Tango, Foxtrot is the wild, unvarnished, often outrageous story of building an aerospace company from the ground up. Over more than two decades in the airline industry, Tim Morgan lived the reality behind the headlines: modifying fleets of $300 million airplanes for mega-corporations, where a single late part or botched flight test could cost millions — or careers. This is a founder’s memoir told with grit, humor, and hard-earned business lessons by someone who survived it.
From boardrooms to hangars, flight tests to fiascos, Morgan shares the triumphs, the train wrecks, and the colorful cast of pirates and clowns who populate the high-wire world of aerospace. Rooted in the Boeing-built aviation culture of Seattle, it’s a corporate survival story about leadership, risk, and resilience — and what it really takes to keep a small company alive against impossible odds.
True stories. Big lessons. One hell of a ride.