Author: Ronald Keith
Publisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 192670648X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.
Bush Pilot with a Briefcase
Author: Ronald Keith
Publisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 192670648X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.
Publisher: D & M Publishers
ISBN: 192670648X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
At the age of twenty-two, Grant McConachie was a bush pilot running his own crazy airline in the Canadian North, flying trappers, gold miners, huskies and fish all over the wilderness. Only sixteen years later, he was appointed president of CPR’S fledgling airline, Canadian Pacific. In Bush Pilot with a Briefcase author Ronald A. Keith tells the incredible story of this country’s most colourful aviation pioneer. On McConachie's first official commercial flight, his passengers were one university professor and two hundred yellow-tailed crows. His first business partners were a Maltese princess and a carnival barker. He kept his early bush planes—and his subsequent career—aloft with equal parts luck and sheer seat-of-the-pants skill. As chief of Canadian Pacific from 1947 until his death in 1965, McConachie expanded his airline across the globe. Everywhere he went, his freewheeling high spirits, flamboyant style and what one journalist called “supersonic salesmanship” made him an irresistible force.
Bush Pilot with a Briefcase
Author: Keith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780770103132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780770103132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bush Pilot with a Briefcase
Author: Ronald A. Keith
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks
ISBN: 9780773770423
Category : Mcconachie, Grant, 1909-1965
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : PaperJacks
ISBN: 9780773770423
Category : Mcconachie, Grant, 1909-1965
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bush Pilot With a Briefcase
Author: Keith Ronald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404193263
Category : McConachie, Grant, 1909-1965
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780404193263
Category : McConachie, Grant, 1909-1965
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Bush Pilot with a Briefcase
Author: Ronald A. Keith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bush-Pilot with a briefcase
Author: Ronald E. Keith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Flying on Instinct
Author: L.D. Cross
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051851
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1927051851
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
Flying Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Bush Pilot's Mayday
Author: Ken Forscutt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bush pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bush pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Bush Pilot
Author: Pierre Rivest
Publisher: Montréal : Publications Aéroscope
ISBN: 9782980083228
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Publisher: Montréal : Publications Aéroscope
ISBN: 9782980083228
Category : Airplanes
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description