Flying On Instinct: Canada's Bush Pilot Pioneers (amazing Stories)
by L.D. Cross /
2012 / English / EPUB
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They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch,
Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold,
snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather
reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests
and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and line of sight. They
landed on makeshift runways, glaciers, muskeg, tundra and glassy
lakes. Comrades of the wilderness, they were Canadas early bush
pilots.
They were nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch,
Doc and Wop. They worked in open cockpits and flew through cold,
snow and fog without the benefit of radios, maps or weather
reports. They flew over the Barrens, frozen lakes, boreal forests
and mountain ranges by dead reckoning and line of sight. They
landed on makeshift runways, glaciers, muskeg, tundra and glassy
lakes. Comrades of the wilderness, they were Canadas early bush
pilots.
L.D. Cross brings us the incredible stories of the brave and
enterprising pilots who rolled back the boundaries of western and
northern Canada, delivering mail, medicine, miners and all the
supplies needed by frontier settlements. Flying such planes as
Curtiss, Bellanca, de Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman,
Stinson and Vickers, they were the off-roaders of aviation,
venturing where no others dared to go. Climb into the cockpit
with these pioneering pilots for an exciting trip into Canadian
aviation history.
L.D. Cross brings us the incredible stories of the brave and
enterprising pilots who rolled back the boundaries of western and
northern Canada, delivering mail, medicine, miners and all the
supplies needed by frontier settlements. Flying such planes as
Curtiss, Bellanca, de Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman,
Stinson and Vickers, they were the off-roaders of aviation,
venturing where no others dared to go. Climb into the cockpit
with these pioneering pilots for an exciting trip into Canadian
aviation history.