Flying the Frontiers : A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure

Other than a lightly embossed I.D. on the end page this is a clean, tight and unmarked copy- Flying the Frontiers : A Half-Million Hours of Aviation Adventure -Phil Lucas, Charles Robinson, Chris Templeton, Ralph Langemann, Bill Law, Mike Thomas, Weldy Phipps, Jimmy Anderson, Lorna deBlicquy, Don Hadden, Joe Irwin, Catherine Fletcher,.-" Front cover painting, "The Big Bellanca" by Robert Bradford, back cover painting, "Safe on Top" by Wally Wolfe (illustrator). 1st Edition 1st Printing. -----Blue boards with gilt on spine, headband, no names, (x) 213 pages with b & w photos through-out, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "Told first-hand by the people who experienced them, these are wondrous tales of near-misis & amazing successes, heroism & foolishness, innovations & innovations, where the element of risk is part of every flight plan. Flying the Frontiers tells of an era that has all but disappeared, & of people whose careers spanned the pioneer age in aviation. Many continue to fly today. Their stories are enhanced by more than seventy personal photographs that depict the airplanes they flew, the territory they covered, & the predicaments in which they found themselves." Contents include: Preface / The Call of the North (Mike Thomas) / Whiskey Whiskey Papa (Weldy Phipps) / The Jackpine Savage (Jimmy Andreson) / Ballad of a Bush Pilot (Olden Bawld) / On the Fringes of the Average Life (Lorna deBlicquy) / Rebel with a Cause (Don Hadden) / Flight and Flights of a Pioneer Pilot (Joe Irwin) / The Has-been (Olden Bawld) / The Red-headed Stranger (Catherine Fletcher) / The Queen's Engineer (Bill Law) / Tales from the Log Book (Ralph Langemann) / Picking Up the Pieces (Chris Templeton) / The Pilot Poet (Charles Robinson) / A Pilot's Soliloquey (Olden Bawld) / Lucky Lucas (Phil Lucas).