Polar Winds

Polar Winds
Author: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 225
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.

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
Polar Winds
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-10 - Publisher: Dundurn

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Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics to bush pilots and beyond. "They were all gamblers and fortune seekers. They did things on the
Flying on Instinct
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: L. D. Cross
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - 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
Bent Props and Blow Pots
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Rex Terpening
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Harbour Publishing Company

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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: 227
Authors: Kerry Karram
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-21 - Publisher: Dundurn

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This dramatic story of the rescue of eight men on a prospecting mission in the Arctic covers a period of four suspenseful months in the fall of 1929. A rescue t