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The first flight from the west coast to the prairies across the Rocky Mountains occurred on August 7, 1919 when Royal Flying Corps veteran Captain Ernie Hoy flew A Curtiss JN-4 Canuck from Vancouver to Lethbridge and Calgary...............
An aviation history of the airfields and seaplane bases which were part of the communities of the west coast of British Columbia and Alaska............
This book is a collection of experience gathered during Manley Fredlund's twenty-year career in the helicopter industry. Skydancing is the story of one man's odyssey through (and with) an industry, through time, and through an understanding of the almost
In 1940, when young Canadians were rushing off to the recruiting offices, they had no idea what the fates had in store for them.............
Insights into the organisation, equipment, men, machines, technology and tactics of the RAF's bomber offensive 1939 - 1945
Night and day in the Second World War RAF Bomber Command pounded away at the infrastructure of Germany to bring the Reich to its
The B-24 Liberator remains to this day the world's most-produced heavy bomber and multi-engine aircraft, and the most produced military aircraft in US history, with almost 19,000 examples leaving the assembly lines of five plants.
The Hawker Hurricane has rightly earned its place in military aviation annals. Although only preceding the Spitfire by four months in its prototypic launch, the Hawker machine was available in measurably greater numbers by the Battle of Britain, a very cr
The Lockheed Ventura PV-1 AND PV-2 Harpoon was a bomber and patrol aircraft of World War II, used by United States and British Commonwealth forces in several guises. It was developed from the Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar transport.
Published 1999, 160 pages, 80 black and white and 3 colour photographs and illustrations, cockpit diagram, test flights list, glossary, softcover, 8 1/2" x 11"
Includes CD-ROM picture album slideshow
While the Grumman JF/J2F "Duck" floatplane may have been one of the more ungainly aircraft in service, this military workhorse did a tremendous job as a naval utility aircraft, both before and during WWII.
Richly illustrated and filled with anecdotes by Tracker pilots and crewmen, Grumman S2F/S-2 Tracker describes the history and service of this dependable carrier-based antisubmarine aircraft. Both in military and civilian roles. Trackers proved to be adapt