Flying Canucks II takes us into Air Canada’s boardroom with Claude I. Taylor, to the Avro Arrow design office with Jim Floyd, inside the incredible career of Aviation Hall of Fame pilot Herb Seagram, on C.D. Howe’s historic dawn-to-dusk flight, and with Len Birchall in a Stranraer seaplane before he became, in Churchill’s phrase, “The Saviour of Ceylon.” It includes the story of how Scottish immigrant J.A. Wilson engineered a chain of airports across the country, how bush pilot Bob Randall explored the polar regions, and the ordeal of Erroll Boyd, the first Canadian to fly the Atlantic. The lives of “Buck” McNair and “Bus” Davey, half a century after the Second World War, are placed in the perspective of the entire national experience in those years. Whenever possible, Mr. Pigott has interviewed the players themselves, and drawing on his experience and contacts within the aviation community, has created a multi-faceted study of the business, politics, and technology that influenced the ten lives explored in depth in this book.
C.D. Howe, wartime Canada’s absolute government czar used to say that running the country’s airline was all he really wanted to do. With a rich aviation heritage such as this, Flying Canucks II depicts the elements and the enemy at their worst and the pioneers of Canadian aviation at their best.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 629.13/0092/271
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Originally published: Toronto [Ont.] : Hounslow Press, c1997 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781554881666
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- TL539
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- P542 1997eb
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- 1 electronic text (141 p.)
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- Canada
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00602941 (OCoLC)719733664 (CaOOCEL)410672
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- Flying Canucks 2 Flying Canucks two
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
- INTRODUCTION 12
- LEONARD BIRCHALL: THE SAVIOUR OF CEYLON 14
- ERROLL BOYD: THE FIRST CANADIAN TO FLY THE ATLANTIC 26
- "BUS" DAVEY: THE AIRMAN'S PRAYER 36
- JAMES C. FLOYD: AERONAUTICAL ENGINEER 48
- PHILIP CLARKE GARRATT OF DE HAVILLAND CANADA 62
- C.D. HOWE: MISTER TRANS-CANADA AIRLINES 72
- "BUCK" McNAIR: WORLD WAR II AIR ACE 92
- ROBERT RANDALL: SHRINKING THE POLAR LATITUDES 102
- HERB SEAGRIM: FROM BUSH TO BOARDROOM 114
- CLAUDE I. TAYLOR: AIRLINE PRESIDENT 122
- JOHN ARMISTEAD WILSON: THE FATHER OF CIVIL AVIATION 134