10,000 hours: Reminiscences of a Helicopter Bush Pilot
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (645 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0919203647 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A first-hand account, it is written by a veteran helicopter bush pilot who flew early Bell 47 helicopters all over the Canadian Arctic in the 1950s and 1960s.. This is a warm, humorous, and candid look at the helicopter as a bush-flying aircraft, and at the machines and people that opened the North during the post-war years
TOM KOPPEL, CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC --Canadian GeographicCanadians have always been proud of the daring fixed-wing pilots who opened the north in the 20s and 30s, but few are aware of the tremendous job carried out by helicopter pilots following WWII. ERNEST LEE, LONDON FREE PRESS --London Free Press . Peter Corley-Smith was involved in the building of the Mid-Canada radar line. Amid the ribaldry and outrageous images helicopters cartwheeling down hillsides, white-outs that disorient even the stablest of personalities is a feast of detail on flying life that raises the book far above mere folksiness. His helicopter flying took him from Labrador to Baffin Island to the Yukon and British Columbia a most readable book
"Excellent history of early helicopter bush work." according to Jim Dulin. This was a well written and very informative book.. nice little stories obout bush flying in the fifties A Customer Interesting little stories about bush flying between 1950 and 1960 in Alaska and Canada. enjoyable to read for heli freaks to become an idea how heli flying was during this time. easy to get in Alaska (1996)