Polar Winds
Polar Winds

Author: Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1459723821

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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.

Flying on Instinct
Flying on Instinct

Author: L. D. Cross

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1927051843

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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.

Four Degrees Celsius
Four Degrees Celsius

Author: Kerry Karram

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2012-04-21

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1459700511

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This dramatic story of the rescue of eight men on a prospecting mission in the Arctic covers a period of four suspenseful months in the fall of 1929. A rescue team, headed by bush pilot Andy Cruikshank, at a time when aviation was in its infancy, encountered harrowing experiences but finally completed its mission.

True-Life Adventures of Canada's Bush Pilots
True-Life Adventures of Canada's Bush Pilots

Author: Bill Zuk

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 145940775X

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Bush pilots haul cargo to remote reserves along the West Coast of Canada. They ferry big-game hunters to base camps and fly-in fishermen to remote lodges. They take nature photographers to scenic vistas and archaeological explorers to their latest dig. Bush pilots and the planes they have flown are an exciting part of Canada's aviation history. In his latest book Bill Zuk brings their exploits and adventures alive. With detailed descriptions of their planes, and stories of their daring and their bravery, he evokes our admiration for these enterprising men who have contributed so colourfully to the fabric of Canadian life.