Aviation and Pilot's stories


A collection of stories about pilots, by pilots, or about aviation... fact and fiction. There is something here for any kind of aviation enthusiast! Flying is one of the activities appealing the most to our imagination. The stories from aviators will add to that appeal, and show that our wildest imagination sometimes still not lives up to the reality!

Frank Barr: Bush Pilot in Alaska and the Yukon (Caribou Classics) by Dermott Clark
(Paperback)

Book Description:
" FRANK BARR is an entertaining tale of the exploits of one of Alaska's diminishing population of bush pilots. It is a refreshing look at the not-so-distant past and a pleasant read for a winter's evening." --Tundra Times
Heart of the Storm : My Adventures as a Helicopter Rescue Pilot and Commander by Edward L. Fleming (Hardcover)

From the Inside Flap
During the course of a thirty-year career in helicopter rescue, Col. Edward Fleming led scores of high-risk missions, including rescue operations during the Halloween storm of 1991 described in The Perfect Storm and the successful rescue of Dr. Jerri Nielsen from Antarctica. Flying helicopters is more dangerous than flying fixed-wing aircraft–and helicopter rescue is one of the most dangerous occupations on earth. Now, Col. Fleming takes readers along for a bracing ride as he recounts the most thrilling episodes of his long career.
Recommended by an FSAddon reader:
Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann
(Paperback)

Review
V.S. Pritchett New Statesman Mr. Gann is a writer saturated in his subject; he has the skill to make every instant sharp and important and we catch the fever to know that documentary writing does not often invite. The New Yorker This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of [the author's] nearly ten thousand hours aloft in peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck -- that "the pattern of anyone fate is only partly contrived by the individual." New York Times Book Review Few writers have ever drawn their readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is here that Mr. Gann is truly the artist.

FSAddon customers also bought:
Alaska's Sky Follies: The Funny Side of Flying in the Far North by Joe Rychetnik, Sandy Jamieson
(Paperback)

Introduction
"..Bill Munz put on a show for the folks of Nome one afternoon when he found the winds coming over the Nome Airport at exactly the same speed as his flying speed approaching the field.... ". That's how this book starts. A collection of flying stories from Alaska, about the bush pilots, the crazy things they transport and how they do it.. or don't in some cases!
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Flying the Alaska Wild
 The Adventures and Misadventures of an Alaska Bush Pilot by Mort D. Mason, Mort Mason
(Hardcover)

Book Description
" Flying the Alaska Wild" is true grit stuff: a collection of fascinating stories about the rough-and-tumble life of an Alaskan bush pilot--straight from the pilot's seat. Recounting twenty-plus years of adventures, skilled storyteller Mort Mason presents his own death-defying tales, and also tells the legendary stories of other old-time bush pilots.
Flying through the wildly unpredictable weather conditions and unforgiving terrain of the Big Empty--where bush pilots find few paved runways, control towers, friendly voices on their silent radios, navigational aids, and few places to drop in for coffee and fuel for their flimsy planes--Mason honed his skill--and his luck--in a profession that just a few have the stamina to endure. Here, he recounts his more memorable flights and the conditions, circumstances, and admitted errors that made them so. For pilots and airplane buffs; Alaska buffs; hunters, guides, and outdoors enthusiasts.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Last updated August 23rd, 2005