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The Noorduyn Norseman Vol.2 begins with a solid review of the Norseman in Canadian government service from the RCMP to the provincial air services. The commercial scene is covered with such themes as forestry, mining, commercial fishing and Arctic explora
Here at long last is the first major history of Canada’s most historic bushplane – the incredible Norseman! If you have an interest in Canada’s aviation heritage, you’ll want this spectacular, authoritative new title. Beginning with design in 1934, first
Following right behind Volume 1 Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades, CANAV is excited to introduce you to Volume 2 – Aviation in Canada: The Formative Years. Here is another "must have" book for any sincere fan of Canada's great aviation heritage. Mak
If you are a fan of aviation history, The Leslie Corness Propliner Collection belongs in your library. The story begins in the 1930s with young Leslie photographic aviation at Edmonton's historic Blatchord Field. The early pages show how his interests evo
Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O?
Politics played an important part of cours
Canada’s first airliner from conception to demise. The world is down to a single North Star. Get the low down on this fabulous propliner in a book that is the model for any airliner history. Grand Daddy of the Bombardier C Series, the North Star was
Aviation in Canada: Volume 7: The CAE Story by Larry Milberry.
This book is a full-out effort covering one of the world’s great aerospace manufacturers. You won’t find many aviation books as beautifully produced or all-encompassing.
This is the story of Charlottetown native, Carl F. Burke, who went from selling radios in a hardware store for $12.00 an hour to founding Maritime Central Airways, acquiring Nordair and becoming one of Canada's most successful aviation entrepreneurs.
24 pages, black & white photographs, 44 colour profiles, colour multi views, 1:72 scale plans, unit list, line drawings, model kit and decal list, softcover, A4 format, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
Douglas C-54/R5D Skymaster and DC-4 The Douglas C-54 Skymaster, a direct adaptation of the civilian DC-4 while still on the production line, became the outstanding long-range four-engined transport aircraft of the Second World War.
48 pages, black & white and colour photographs, colour detail photos, 30 colour profiles, colour multi-view, 1:72 scale line drawing plans, production and unit lists, model kit decal and accessory list, softcover, A4 Format, 21 cm (8 1/4”) x 29.7 cm (11 3
Who has not been astonished at an airport when he sees a particularly eye-catching airplane with an extremely elaborate paint job? More and more often, airlines make use of special painting whether to celebrate an anniversary, advertise a certain product,
This volume provides an in-depth look into the story of this extremely significant jetliner and the environment that has contributed to this amazing story. Rich with many photographs and drawings that are published for the first time!
Presented in this book is the story of the former Frontier Airlines from its founding just after World War II to its eventual demise in the 1980s. The legacy of pioneering air service, purchasing jets, and competing after airline deregulation are just a f
Developed in the 1960s/1970s, the Tu-144 was the Soviet Union’s only practical venture into supersonic commercial aviation. Though its career was all too brief, it was a major technological achievement for the Soviet aircraft industry. The book provides i
Drawn from the files of English, American, New Zealand, Australian and Canadian sources, as well as from veterans, this is the story of Lockheed's Lucky Star-the marvelous Ventura! Fashioned from the Lockheed Model 18 airliner, the Ventura went on to figh
The Albatross was the premier fixed-wing rescue aircraft for the U.S. Air Force and Coast Guard. Its very colorful history begins in 1946 and spans nearly a quarter of a century, including service with twenty-two foreign nations.
Republic Airlines and its twelve predecessors formed one of the finest national airlines that ever spanned the nation............
Through his award-winning artwork, Mike Machat has documented aviation for the past 40 years in ways never before seen, a process made possible by flying in many of the aircraft he painted, and developing life-long personal friendships with pilots of the
Following the life of this aircraft from its initial inception to the delivery of the first production models, this book begins with Boeing's initial thoughts concerning a new wide-body transport, how the original concept changes over a period of months o
A large number of people in the United States had their first airplane ride in a Ford Tri-Motor during the 1920s and 1930s, a plane that remains to this day a fine example of engineering, planning and production. It was the application of a modified assem