Merlyn Carter Bush Pilot

Author : Rob Kesselring
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634925723
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MERLYN CARTER, BUSH PILOT written by Rob Kesselring and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifty years, flying floats and skis, Merlyn's planes crashed into trees, broke through lake ice, twice flipped and once exploded. Merlyn always walked away. Some called him lucky, many called Merlyn their best friend until a June day when he lost a battle to the jaws of a bear.

Author : Michael Vlessides
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1553659392
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ice Pilots written by Michael Vlessides and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nail-biting tour whooshing through the Arctic air alongside the legendary ice pilots, whose story created an international television sensation. Based on the top-rated TV show now airing on History Channel and Global TV in Canada, and in eleven other countries around the world, The Ice Pilots follows a group of pilots in Yellowknife, Canada, and the extraordinary adventures of the most unorthodox flyboys on earth. Renegade Arctic airline Buffalo Airways defies the cold and the competition by using World War 2-era propeller planes to haul vital fuel, supplies and passengers to remote outposts across the world's last great wilderness of northern Canada. From rookie pilots trying to earn their wings in dangerous conditions to vintage planes that flew over Normandy on D-Day, The Ice Pilots brings its readers on an engaging romp through Arctic skies. The intrepid Michael Vlessides -- the writer behind Les Stroud's bestselling Survivorman books -- braves bone-chilling temperatures, treacherous landings and iconic owner "Buffalo" Joe McBryan's famous temper to capture behind-the-scenes stories about the ice pilots, the crew, the passengers and the communities they serve. Weaving in history about bush pilots, plane crashes and the north, Vlessides has crafted an entertaining, informative narrative about aviation: the lifeline of this remote and icy world.

Author : L. D. Cross
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 1927051843
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying on Instinct written by L. D. Cross and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Canada's 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.

Author : Ken Forscutt
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257088130
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bush Pilot's Mayday written by Ken Forscutt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bush Pilots Mayday is a true life adventure based on the logbook entries and the recollections of fellow pilots. Ken flew a Cessna for 17 years into various places in Northwestern Canada, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories. His aircraft was equipped with a minimum of radio gear and all his navigation was done with the map and compass.

Author : Lee Moldenhauer
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1038300479
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prospecting in the Northwest Territories written by Lee Moldenhauer and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a different time. In 1970, the hippie culture was still going strong, and young people were ready to take on the world. It was a time of getting back to the land, jumping in a VW van to tour the country—without wearing seatbelts, and listening to songs like Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild” on a transistor radio. Against this backdrop, Lee Moldenhauer, a twenty-one-year-old geology student jumps at the chance to do some prospecting in the wilds of the Northwest Territories with three friends under conditions that are almost unimaginable today. After taking a floatplane into the bush, the four are left to fend for themselves with food supplies, basic camping equipment, and some geological maps. Without a two-way radio or even lifejackets, they set about canoeing and portaging their way back to Yellowknife while staking claims and looking for mineral deposits over the summer. Prospecting in the Northwest Territories is the entertaining and engaging true story of the author and his friends’ adventures that summer. These include tackling terrifying rapids, losing half of their equipment in a canoe accident, and the author getting lost without any food or warm clothing. Yet despite these hardships, Lee Moldenhauer looks back fondly on these adventures with his friends, the beauty of the North, and the thrill of living rough in the bush and being able to survive by counting on their wits and each other. Part memoir, part travel story, and part adventure story, this fascinating read will leave you asking yourself, “Could I have done that?”

Author : Robert M. Brantner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781413406405
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Year As an Alaskan Bush Pilot written by Robert M. Brantner and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudy Billberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575101545
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Eagles written by Rudy Billberg and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn Lazzari-Wing
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465349294
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Skies, Green Hell written by Marilyn Lazzari-Wing and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot's wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multiaircraft service that flies food, supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no-man's-land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn't be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.

Author : Arnold Griese
Publisher : Publishing Consultants
ISBN 13 : 9781594330261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bush Pilot written by Arnold Griese and published by Publishing Consultants. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Alaska Aviator Harold Gillam, Sr. Lucky or Legend?

Author : Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459723821
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polar Winds written by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.