From Our Editors
Climb aboard and get ready for take off on an extraordinary journey
with some of Canada's most striking storytellers -- our
pilots.Flying the Frontiers: Volume II,
presents true-life tales of professional and pleasure pilots who
push beyond the traditional boundaries. These are stories from
people who view our county from the air. Men and women recount
their love of flying and the unique challenges it brings to them:
negotiating a landing among ice floes in the Arctic Ocean,
maintaining and repairing airplanes in 60-below weather and
converting Second World War reconnaissance planes to fire fighters.
From the Publisher
Accompany Shirlee Smith Matheson on more flying adventures with the daring frontiersmen of aviation. From bush pilots who flew for the love of it to military and corporate career flyers, from inventors to engineers, their stories tell Canada''s story and show the impact aviation has had on our county - and on the North in particular.
Readers will meet an Oblate priest who flew throughout Canada''s North; a woman in her eighties who thought nothing of flying solo from Alberta to Kansas and Vermont; a tail-gunner whose poignant story lends special insight into what Canada is all about; and an Alberta family whose flying machine matched discoveries made by the Wright brothers; a man who pioneered the use of helicopters in the North; and a pilot who guided his aircraft down the Mackenzie River with dynamite caps held between his knees.