Author: Kevin Kremer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733349260
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grandpa has an amazing story to tell two of his grandchildren about the life of a pilot named Carl Ben Eielson, who was born in the town of Hatton in 1897, just six years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. Eielson eventually became a world-famous pilot and the top promoter of early aviation in Alaska. His achievements inspired people around the world.This is a great read aloud chapter book which includes a tour of Carl Ben's boyhood home in Hatton!
North Dakota's Polar Pilot
Author: Kevin Kremer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733349260
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grandpa has an amazing story to tell two of his grandchildren about the life of a pilot named Carl Ben Eielson, who was born in the town of Hatton in 1897, just six years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. Eielson eventually became a world-famous pilot and the top promoter of early aviation in Alaska. His achievements inspired people around the world.This is a great read aloud chapter book which includes a tour of Carl Ben's boyhood home in Hatton!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733349260
Category : Air pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Grandpa has an amazing story to tell two of his grandchildren about the life of a pilot named Carl Ben Eielson, who was born in the town of Hatton in 1897, just six years before the Wright Brothers' first flight. Eielson eventually became a world-famous pilot and the top promoter of early aviation in Alaska. His achievements inspired people around the world.This is a great read aloud chapter book which includes a tour of Carl Ben's boyhood home in Hatton!
Polar Pilot
Author: Dorothy Guzzi Page
Publisher: Hobar Publications
ISBN: 9780813429366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Eielson, a pioneer North Dakota aviator, became the father of air-mail service in Alaska. After developing fame as an Alaskan bush pilot, he was hired by Arctic explorer, Hubert Wilkins to pilot him. Eielson and Wilkins were the first two individuals to fly over both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Publisher: Hobar Publications
ISBN: 9780813429366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Eielson, a pioneer North Dakota aviator, became the father of air-mail service in Alaska. After developing fame as an Alaskan bush pilot, he was hired by Arctic explorer, Hubert Wilkins to pilot him. Eielson and Wilkins were the first two individuals to fly over both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Polar Pilot
Author: Dorothy Guzzi Page
Publisher: Vero Media Incorporated
ISBN: 9780813429397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Publisher: Vero Media Incorporated
ISBN: 9780813429397
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Alaska's First Bush Pilots, 1923-30
Author: Jim Rearden
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 0882409328
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book follows the careers of Alaska's pioneering pilots, who, with cranky open-cockpit biplanes, started the great change in Alaska's way of travel. Aviation first arrived at Fairbanks, the trade center of mainland Alaska, from which dog sled trails spider-web to mines, villages, and trap-lines. During winters, goods and people traveled mostly by dog sled. During the summer of 1923 Ben Eielson was the first to fly commercially from Fairbanks, ferrying passengers and light freight with an open cockpit Jenny (JN4) biplane. It was the beginning of the leap from ground travel to the air. Noel Wien was the next. In the summers of 1924-26 he flew open cockpit biplanes from Fairbanks. Starting in 1927, he flew a cabin biplane year-around on scheduled flights in the 579 miles between Fairbanks and Nome. In March, 1929, Wien flew from Alaska to the Elisif, an ice-locked trading schooner in Siberia, to return with a load of valuable furs. In the following November, Ben Eielson repeated this flight to the Nanuk, another ice-bound trading schooner in Siberia. And when he and his mechanic, Earl Borland returned for a second load of Siberian fur, their Hamilton airplane disappeared in a winter snowstorm. This brought on one of the most famous, and difficult aerial searches ever made from and in Alaska. By the 1930s, Alaska's growing aviation industry had revolutionized transportation in the Territory. This volume is a fond look back at the triumphs and tragedies of the pioneering Ben Eielson, Noel Wien, Harold Gillam, Joe Crosson, Ed Young, and others, the great pilots who were the first bush pilots of Alaska.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 0882409328
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book follows the careers of Alaska's pioneering pilots, who, with cranky open-cockpit biplanes, started the great change in Alaska's way of travel. Aviation first arrived at Fairbanks, the trade center of mainland Alaska, from which dog sled trails spider-web to mines, villages, and trap-lines. During winters, goods and people traveled mostly by dog sled. During the summer of 1923 Ben Eielson was the first to fly commercially from Fairbanks, ferrying passengers and light freight with an open cockpit Jenny (JN4) biplane. It was the beginning of the leap from ground travel to the air. Noel Wien was the next. In the summers of 1924-26 he flew open cockpit biplanes from Fairbanks. Starting in 1927, he flew a cabin biplane year-around on scheduled flights in the 579 miles between Fairbanks and Nome. In March, 1929, Wien flew from Alaska to the Elisif, an ice-locked trading schooner in Siberia, to return with a load of valuable furs. In the following November, Ben Eielson repeated this flight to the Nanuk, another ice-bound trading schooner in Siberia. And when he and his mechanic, Earl Borland returned for a second load of Siberian fur, their Hamilton airplane disappeared in a winter snowstorm. This brought on one of the most famous, and difficult aerial searches ever made from and in Alaska. By the 1930s, Alaska's growing aviation industry had revolutionized transportation in the Territory. This volume is a fond look back at the triumphs and tragedies of the pioneering Ben Eielson, Noel Wien, Harold Gillam, Joe Crosson, Ed Young, and others, the great pilots who were the first bush pilots of Alaska.
Ice Station Nautilus
Author: Rick Campbell
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250072158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A thilling race against time—and the Russian military—to rescue the men trapped in two disabled nuclear submarines under the arctic polar cap
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250072158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A thilling race against time—and the Russian military—to rescue the men trapped in two disabled nuclear submarines under the arctic polar cap
North Dakota History
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Journal of the Northern Plains.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Journal of the Northern Plains.
Air Force and Space Digest
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Exploring the Plains States Through Literature
Author: Carolyn S. Brodie
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Print and non-print resources for the study of the plains states in grades K-8.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Print and non-print resources for the study of the plains states in grades K-8.
North Dakota Blue Book
Author: North Dakota. Dept. of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: A-F
Author: Dan L. Thrapp
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803294189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803294189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier