Polar Winds

Polar Winds
Author: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2014-09-10
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1459723821

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With historical research and rare interviews, explore the highs and lows of aviation north of the 60th parallel. This journey takes readers from hot air balloons above the Klondike gold fields, to international bids for the North Pole, to high-profile crashes and search-and-rescue operations.


Polar Winds
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-10 - Publisher: Dundurn

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With historical research and rare interviews, explore the highs and lows of aviation north of the 60th parallel. This journey takes readers from hot air balloon
Bent Props & Blow Pots
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Rex Terpening
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-18 - Publisher:

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Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s, when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northw
Four Degrees Celsius
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Kerry Karram
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-21 - Publisher: Dundurn

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A dramatic story of the rescue of eight men on a prospecting mission in the Arctic that covers a period of four suspenseful months in the fall of 1929. This tru
True-Life Adventures of Canada's Bush Pilots
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Bill Zuk
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-01 - Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

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Bush pilots haul cargo to remote reserves along the West Coast of Canada. They ferry big-game hunters to base camps and fly-in fishermen to remote lodges. They
Flying on Instinct
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: L.D. Cross
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-28 - Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

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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 bene