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Flying The Frontiers Volume II, A Half Million Hours of Aviation Adventure
Climb aboard and get ready for takeoff on an extraordinary journey with some of Canada's most striking storytellers—our pilots. Flying The Frontiers Volume II, More Hours of Aviation Adventure, presents true life tales of professional and pleasure pilots, engineers and many others who push beyond the traditional boundaries. This volume continues the story of a disappearing era as aviation brings the trappings of modern life into the back of beyond, leaving fewer frontiers. It shows the impact of these explorations on both the environment and the people who make the bush and the barrens their home.
These are stories of people who view our country from the air, men and women in love with flying and with the unique challenges that flying brings to them—negotiating a landing among ice floes in the Arctic Ocean, maintaining and repairing airplanes in 60-below weather, converting World War II reconnaissance planes to fire-fighting vehicles, hauling 7 million day-old chicks to Cuba or seeding clouds for the Shah of Iran.
Detselig Enterprises, Calgary, AB, 1996
ISBN 1-55059-131-2
List price: $29.95 CDN
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Shirlee Smith Matheson
page date April 19, 2010
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