Dancing in the Sky: The Royal Flying Corps in Canada
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1550028642 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Dancing in the Sky, Bill Hunt … has done a workmanlike job in the first complete telling of Canada's first pilot training program. (Country Roads) . (The Chronicle-Herald)Indeed Dancing in the Sky is a fitting tribute to the energy, ingenuity, and perseverance of Canada early in the 20th century
He lives in Belleville, Ontario.. C.W. Hunt, a former history teacher, business executive, and entrepreneur, retired from business to devote his energies to writing in 1996. He has written six books on the history of the Belleville area including Booze, Boats and Billions and Gentleman Charlie and the Lady Rum Runner
Flying was in its infancy and pilot training primitive. This is the story of the talented and courageous men and women who made the training program a success, complete with the romance, tragedy, humour, and pathos that accompany an account of such heroic proportions. This program, up and running in under six months despite enormous obstacles, launched Canada into the age of flight ahead of the United States. A valuable addition to Canada’s military history, this book will appeal to all who enjoy an exceptional adventure story embedded in Canada’s past.. The results enabled the Allies to regain control of the skies and eventually win the war, but at a terrible price. Dancing in the Sky is the first complete telli
"KUDOS TO A PROGRAM THAT GAVE CANADA ITS WINGS" according to KOMET. This book is about an air training scheme in Canada that was developed by Great Britain during the First World War to redress the alarmingly high losses it sustained in trained airmen over the Western Front in 1916. As a result of these losses, in the short run, Britain was forced to cut corners in its own training of pilots. Consequently, through the summer of 1917, many rookie pilots in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) went into combat barely able to fly a plane, much less fight in one. The average longevity of an RFC pilot on the Western Front in early 1917 was 11 days.In the meantime, Britain had been in . "Good History Book" according to J'nell L. Pate. I needed this book for some research I was doing. It has an entire chapter on the topic in which I was interested. The Royal Canadian Flying Corps in World War I is a quite interesting story.. "Call me, Mr. Hunt" according to Castle Mclaughlin. This is a real contribution to WWI aviation history, and fills a gap in the literature. The author does a good job of organizing and presenting the story of the RFC in Canada.I'm unsure whether the author is a professional historian. There is an entire chapter on Vernon Castle, the world famous (British) dancer turned flying Ace-and his American wife, Irene Castle, who was my grandmother. Hunt bases much of his information about Vernon soley on interviews with the 80 yr old daughter of Castle's "girlfriend" during the time he was stationed in Canada (Vernon died the following year in Texas, where he was a