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Polar Winds - A Century of Flying the North (Paperback)
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Polar Winds - A Century of Flying the North (Paperback)
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List price R553
Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
You Save R34 (6%)
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Polar Winds traces a century of northern flight from balloonatics
to bush pilots and beyond. "They were all gamblers and fortune
seekers. They did things on their own - were independent people who
wanted to be free to roam. They were good people, but, of course,
some were loners or escapists. They all depended strictly on their
wits." Joe McBryan, pilot and owner of Yellowknife-based Buffalo
Airways, was talking about gold prospectors in the 1940s when he
said this, but he could just as easily have been describing the
aviators who have flown northern skies for over a hundred years.
They were adventurers and pioneers, but also just men and women
doing what was required to make a living north of the sixtieth
parallel. Polar Winds uses the stories of these pilots and others
to explore the greater history of air travel in the North, from the
Klondike Gold Rush through to the end of the twentieth century. It
encompasses everything from exploration flights to the North Pole
in airships to passenger travel in jet liners; flying school buses
for residential schools to indigenous pilots performing mercy
flights; and from the harrowing crashes to the routine supply runs
that make up daily life in the North. Above all, it is a unique
history told through the experiences of northerners on the ground
and in the sky.
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