Format:
1 online resource (415 pages)
ISBN:
9781442671706
Series Statement:
Heritage
Content:
This book not only records the significant events of Canadian aviation but also pays tribute to the 'forgotten flyers who flew by guess and by God or with calculating caution - for the sheer love of flying - in the early days.'.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- 1 PIONEERS OF THE AIR, 1907-1914 -- 1 Wings rise in the East -- 2 Alberta's flying saucer, 1907 -- 3 Gibson's twin and multi-planes, 1910-1911 -- 4 More wings in the West, 1909-1918 -- 5 A close-up of two early birds -- 6 Brisk youths, 1907-1915 -- 2 THE BARNSTORMERS, 1906-1914 -- 7 Balloons and airships, 1906-1914 -- 8 Airplane barnstorming begins, 1909-1910 -- 9 The air meets of 1910 -- 10 Exhibition flying, 1911 -- 11 Billy Stark, Canadian barnstormer, 1912-1915 -- 12 Noteworthy flights, 1912 -- 13 The friendly invasion wanes, 1913-1914 -- 3 THE WAR YEARS, 1914-1918 -- 14 The war birds learn to fly -- 15 The Royal Flying Corps in Canada, 1917-1918 -- 16 Other aviation highlights during World War I -- 4 THE DOLLAR-A-MINUTE DAYS, 1919-1920 -- 17 Dollar-a-minute days in the East -- 18 Farmstorming days out West -- 19 Through the doldrums, 1921-1923 -- 5 ANNIHILATING TIME AND SPACE, 1919-1926 -- 20 Conquest of the Atlantic, 1919 -- 21 Spanning the continent -- 22 Alaska, and round the world -- 6 NORTHWARD INTO THE BUSH AND SNOW 1919-1929 -- 23 Bush and arctic flights, 1919-1929 -- 24 Rene and Vic: and the Viking -- 25 Over the icefields -- 26 The bush pilot-and his engineer -- 27 Commercial flying hits its stride, 1924-1929 -- 28 Planes to the rescue -- 7 FOR FAME AND FUN, 1927- -- 29 The death or glory road -- 30 A continent shrinks -- 31 Flying for fun -- 32 Youth at the controls -- 8 WINGS AT WORK, 1927- -- 33 The air-mail story -- 34 Wings on many missions -- 35 Retrospect and prospect -- APPENDIXES -- A: Outstanding events in Canadian aviation -- B: Noteworthy air-mail events in Canada to 1939 -- C: McKee Trophy awards -- D: Webster trophy awards -- E: Full list of the graduate pupils of the Curtiss Aviation School, Toronto, during the entire period of its operation, 1915-16.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802064172
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802064172
Language:
English
