Welcome to ssmatheson.ca

With 10 chapters and over 15 true stories detailing Canadian aviation adventures and misadventures, this collection is sure to bring back memories of major events that captivated the interest, and concern, of people around the world.

Matheson has meticulously researched these stories, adding personal interviews with survivors, or families and friends, to recapture the tenseness of the times.

Chapter titles range from "Flight Plans for Freedom - the story of Ken Leishman, Canada's 'Flying Bandit'", to "Where's Johnny?" that chronicles the disappearance of World War II aviation hero Johnny Bourassa; and "Stalin's Falcons," the mysterious disappearance of one of Russia's top flyers whose big bomber and its crew left the skies in August 1937 while flying from Moscow to Chicago over the North Pole.

Photos and maps accompany the text.