Flying on Instinct: Canada's Bush Pilot Pioneers (Amazing Stories)

They Were Nicknamed Snow Eagle, Flying Knight, Bush Angel, Punch, Doc And Wop. They Worked In Open Cockpits And Flew Through Cold, Snow And Fog Without The Benefit Of Radios, Maps Or Weather Reports. They Flew Over The Barrens, Frozen Lakes, Boreal Forests And Mountain Ranges By Dead Reckoning And Line Of Sight. They Landed On Makeshift Runways, Glaciers, Muskeg, Tundra And Glassy Lakes. Comrades Of The Wilderness, They Were Canada’s Early Bush Pilots. L.d. Cross Brings Us The Incredible Stories Of The Brave And Enterprising Pilots Who Rolled Back The Boundaries Of Western And Northern Canada, Delivering Mail, Medicine, Miners And All The Supplies Needed By Frontier Settlements. Flying Such Planes As Curtiss, Bellanca, De Havilland, Fairchild, Junkers, Norseman, Stinson And Vickers, They Were The Off-roaders Of Aviation, Venturing Where No Others Dared To Go. Climb Into The Cockpit With These Pioneering Pilots For An Exciting Trip Into Canadian Aviation History.