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Canada's Flying Heritage.
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.'
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1980.
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| Colección: | Heritage.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- F: Known pupils connected with the Aero Club of British Columbia, to the end of 1915
- G: The Caterpillar Club
- H: Licensing of aircraft and personnel
- I: Museums
- J: Cairns and monuments
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.