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Author | : Colonel Don G. Gaylor |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2010-11-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1450257836 |
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My life story began in 1915 and here it is ninety-four incredible years later. Sixty-seven of these years have been the story of Pegs and my life together. A most successful partnership! Our life has been unique in that together we have enjoyed an unusual panoply of adventures and excitement in exotic areas around the globe during some of the more turbulent and historical periods of the modern world. For us to have been a small, active participant, we are surely blessed.
Author | : Jim Rearden |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 088240931X |
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In the Shadow of Eagles is a uniquely American saga. Rudy Billberg’s story takes readers through the great age of aviation, from his first airplane ride in Minnesota in 1927 to his bush flying career in Alaska beginning in 1941. One of the authentic aviation pioneers, Billberg writes of his countless adventures and close calls during the decades; stunt flying in Midwestern air shows, flying out of Nome into the frozen Arctic, and more. Filled with history and insight, Billberg’s narrative chronicles the lives of many of his fellow Alaskan pilots, including the great pioneer airmen Joe Crosson, Harold Gillam, Noel Wien and Sam White, and tells of the early flying machines they all flew—Travel Airs, Pilgrims, Fairchilds, Bellancas. Rudy Billberg has given us a great story of his time.
Author | : Peter Corley-Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 9780550390202 |
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Author | : Tony Foster |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2000-12 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
ISBN | : 0595144837 |
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North America's vast land mass, sparse population, and deserted north were perfectly suited for aircraft operations on skis and pontoons. The bush pilots opened the North, exploring to its farthest reaches, establishing communication between isolated settlements, delivering supplies, medicines, medical assistance and the mail. They were superb pilots and mechanics, dare devils, barnstormers, inventors, and explorers. Operating without compasses, radios, or detailed maps, they built their awesome legends. The rest of the world soon followed their lead into the vast unmapped, untapped, and unexplored regions of the other continents.
Author | : Arnold Griese |
Publisher | : Publishing Consultants |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594330261 |
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Early Alaska Aviator Harold Gillam, Sr. Lucky or Legend?
Author | : Don C. Braun |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2000-07-24 |
Genre | : Air pilots |
ISBN | : 059500329X |
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The true life story of Canadian Arctic bush pilot Don C. Braun is must reading for aviation fans everywhere. His fireside narrative plus 32 pages of photos capture the spirit and adventures of the first man to land a wheeled aircraft at the North Pole. Born on a farm near St. Cloud, Minnesota, in 1913, Don built and flew a glider as a teenager and then operated an aircraft repair shop at Harlem Airport in Chicago in the 1930's. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 and flew the North West Staging Route from Edmonton to Alaska. His first bush flying was in an RCAF Norseman during the war years, and he went on to become one of the best known and most respected Canadian Arctic bush pilots of his time. He joined with Max Ward in getting Wardair off the ground as a small charter operation out of Yellowknife in the 1950's. While Max grew Wardair into one of the world's premier charter airlines, Don preferred the cockpit and the North. His stories of close calls and life in the North always spoke his mind, and this handsome book does no less. The Artic Fox, as he was known in the North, was superbly resourceful, bailing himself out of tight situations almost daily in his days of High Arctic flying. A great pilot and an even better mechanic, Don shares details aviation fans will know and love. This is your book, pilots and all others who love flying.
Author | : Ronald Keith |
Publisher | : D & M Publishers |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009-12-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 192670648X |
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At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.
Author | : Clarence Moore |
Publisher | : FriesenPress |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1460271483 |
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Following the adventures found in Chilcotin Cowboys in Airplanes, author Clarence Moore delights us again with Bush Pilot. Moore's personal accounts will truly have you "fly by the seat of your pants" with his experiences of commercial flying over the raw splendor of the Cariboo and Chilcotin areas, the mountain ranges, and along the coast of British Columbia. Moore seats you in the cockpits of the many machines he has piloted moving supplies and people to remote areas where few have been, nature reigns but the Grizzly is King. From his first solo flight in 1953, Moore welcomes you aboard sitting you in the pilot's seat to share his adventures as a bush pilot. His advice: keep your butt attached and the aircraft in one piece, no need looking for trouble, it will find you be ready!
Author | : Time-Life Books |
Publisher | : Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780809433124 |
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Describes the personalities, planes and experiences of bush pilots flying in the Canadian wilderness, the Australian outback, the jungles of New Guinea and Latin America and the frozen land of Alaska.
Author | : Dan McCaffery |
Publisher | : James Lorimer & Company |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2003-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781550287653 |
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In February 1932 legendary bush pilot Wilfrid May used his Bellanca Pacemaker to hunt down the notorious killer Albert Johnson, the "Mad Trapper of Rat River." Russ Baker used his Junkers W34 to pluck 24 men from a Yukon mountainside after three bombers crashed in apalling weather in 1942. Jack Hunter tracked rumrunners off the New Brunswick coast in his Fairchild. Bush Planes and Bush Pilots is the story of sixteen extraordinary aircraft found in the collections of Canada's aviation museums. It is a celebration of some of the greatest moments in Canadian history, when daring young pilots defied incredible odds to open up some of the nation's remotest regions to the outside world. Author Dan McCaffery highlights a diverse spectrum of planes from the pioneer era to the modern day; each plane is profiled individually, accompanied by historical and contemporary visuals and colour artwork. Bush Planes and Bush Pilots is an attractive book that will appeal to all who are interested in aviation history and the story of Canada's development as a nation.