Flying Canucks : famous Canadian aviators / Peter Pigott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pigott, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air pilots--Canada--Biography.

Air pilots.

Aeronautics--Canada--History.

Aeronautics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Oxford, England : Hounslow, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation's history. As early as 1908, having read the Wright brothers' invention, alberta farm boys and mechanics in Quebec villages were constructing large kites, attempting to fly them. Within a decade, Canadian air aces, like Bishop and Barker, swept the wartime skies over Frances, piloting deadly machines in mortal combat. Through the 20s, that very Canadian breed of adventurer, the bush pilot, ventured over the desolate tundra, delivering medicine

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Agar, Carl C.; Bannock, Russell; Barker, William George, vc; Bazalgette, Ian Willoughby, vc; Berry, Arthur Massey (Matt); Beurling, George Frederick (Buzz); Bishop, W.A. (Billy), vc; Collishaw, Raymond; Curtiss, Glenn Hammond; Dickins, Clennel H. (Punch); Ellis, Frank H.; Fowler, Walter Warren (Walt); Gilbert, Walter Edwin; Godfrey, Albert Earl; Graham, Stuart; Gray, Robert Hampton, vc; Hartman, Paul Albert; Hornell, David Ernest, vc; MacGill, Elsie; MacLaren, Donald Roderick; May, Wilfrid Reid (Wop); McConachie, George William (Grant)

McCurdy, John AlexanderMacInnis, Gerald Lester; McKee, James Dalzell (Dal); Mynarski, Andrew Charles, vc; Noorduyn, Robert B. Cornelius (Bob); Oaks, Harold Anthony (Doc); Reid, Thomas Mayne (Pat); Siers, Thomas W. (Tommy); Stinson, Katherine; Tudhope, John Henry (Tuddy); Turnbull, Wallace Rupert; Vachon, J.P. Romeo; Vachon, Irenee (Pete); Ward, Maxwell William (Max); Zurakowski, Jan

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611957421

9781281957429

1281957429

9781554881673

1554881676

OCLC:

253819667