Author: MCVICAR, DON
Title: More Than a Pilot
Description: Shrewsbury, Airlife. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0906393671). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Williams, L.R. A near Fine unmarked copy with no inscriptions and some light foxing to fore and top edges with near Fine dustjacket. The author gives a vivid account of the postwar period in Canadian and American aviation circles, when war surplus aircraft abounded, to be bought and sold for a song; returning aircrew vied with each other and with governments for a slice of the action, but many newly founded enterprises went to the wall. Some, like the author's own Worldwide Aviation Company, survived only by the ingenuity of their founders in discovering fresh corners of the market to exploit. Interspersed with fascinatingly detailed accounts of some of the flights made by the giants of yesteryear such as Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes. B2C. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Canadian and American Aviation Post War, Worldwide Aviation Company, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Charles Lindbergh 0906393671 Williams, L.R.


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