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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...............
Of the four horrific hijackings on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance.................
America's Airports: Airfield Development, 1918-1947
Ultralight Vehicles: Access & General Aviation Airport Environment Softcover
A detailed home made book about Ultralight use and access at American general aviation airports, including a large list of airports with ultralight activities as well as federal
There are 984 Aircraft Museums in the United States and 127 Aircraft Museums in Canada that contain Name, Address, Phone Number, Hours, Price of Admission, Gift Shop, Cafeteria, Theater, Restoration Facility, Web Site or Email, and All Aircraft on owned b
This superbly illustrated book celebrates the long and rich history of Bahrain's involvement in military and civil aviation............
Training ground of heroes and daredevils. Transportation hub to the nation. Learn why Midway Airport may be Chicago's most overlooked treasure and the country's most historic airport with this collection of oral histories, historic narrative, and fascinat
Featuring new and classic kitplane designs, this proven bestseller is the most current and comprehensive resource available on choosing, building, and flying homebuilt planes.
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
Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail brings us an extraordinarily intimate, engaging and all-encompassing chronicle of Canadian flight north of the 60th parallel. Metcalfe-Chenail proves herself a remarkable historian and writer,...........
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
Proven tactics and PIC strategies for the professional aviator flying turbine aircraft—and those aspiring to do so.
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
Aviation in Canada: The Pioneer Decades is the first general interest book dedicated solely to Canada's beginnings in flight. From an introductory balloon ascent in New Brunswick in 1840, daring "aeronauts" feel their way along at the edge of the unknown.
Air Transport in Canada is the 20th in the world-acclaimed CANAV Books aviation series, and the grandest Canadian aviation book ever published. With 800,000 words and 4,000 photos it is perhaps more of an event than a book...............
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.
The most definitive account published in recent years of this mainstay of the Luftwaffe that first saw military service in the 1930s and was then engaged in operations in the Spanish Civil War through to the end of World War II.
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.