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De Havilland Canada: Beaver to Dash 8 hardcover
Published November 2022, 160 pages, 220+ all colour photographs, hardcover, 9 3/4 inches x 7 inches
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...............
The book is a series of short stories, a “memoir in anecdotes” that follows the author through his early years as a youngster in Toronto, on to Military College and Air Force flight training and then through a broad spectrum of professional aviation endi
Published 1997, 358 pages, black & white photographs and illustrations, trade paperback, 6" x 9 1/4" inches
Flying Above the Glass Ceiling chronicles the accomplishments of pioneering women flyers and distaff members of the aviation industry from the 1800s to the present, noting their specific struggles because they entered a man's profession! Their personal st
Published March 2021, 280 pages, all colour photographs, softcover, 5.5" x 8" inches
Exciting rescue stories on the high seas! The Coast Guard’s rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm.
This book collects some of the finest writings, both fact and realistic fiction, to lay bare the drama of human beings coping with the skills needed to direct their machines through the vastness of the skies. With contributions from: Charles Lindbergh, Er
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.
One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a gilded era, determined to have more than the life of a farmer's wife. Beautiful, intelligent, and forever seeking the next adventure when her li
Featuring new and classic kitplane designs, this proven bestseller is the most current and comprehensive resource available on choosing, building, and flying homebuilt planes.
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
Published late 2023, 104 pages, 250+ black & white and colour photographs, walk around, 39 colour profiles, colout illustrations. 1:72 scale black & white line drawings, variants and fleet lists, softcover, A4 format, 21 cm x 29.7 cm
By 1985, Saskatchewan-born Jim Lang (guitar) and his wife, Ontario’s own Mary Ackroyd (fiddle), had been living their dream in the music business on the road from Los Angeles to Whitehorse to Frankfurt for ten years...
Published 1998, softcover, 173 pa