Bent Props & Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying
by Terpening, Rex
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1550172875
- ISBN 13
- 9781550172874
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About This Item
A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" Crash landings were part of the job in the early 1930s when Rex Terpening started out in arctic aviation. As an air engineer for Canadian Airways in the Northwest Territories, Terpening took the right-hand seat in the cockpit and flew "on operations" daily, warming the oil and the engine on winter mornings, refueling, and inevitably mending both engine and aircraft when things went wrong. Terpening's beat stretched from Fort McMurray to the Arctic Ocean, and his remarkable bush-flying stories tell of planes wandering lost over unmapped muskeg, perilous rescue missions to retrieve stranded missionaries, dogged searches for downed flyers lost on the Barrens, and emergency landings in blizzards on nameless pothole lakes. But there is humor, too, in tales of a drunken wolverine, a planeload of rambunctious sled dogs, and a trip in a tiny Fairchild with a Catholic priest and the wife of an Anglican minister. And there are vivid evocations of the sheer joy of flying over the Arctic's raw beauty. Rex Terpening not only kept a meticulous journal from which these stories are derived, but he also carried his camera everywhere, snapping pictures of downed machines, their step-by-step resurrections, the men who flew them, and those who fixed them. Most of those men and machines are gone now, but they live on in Bent Props and Blow Pots." About the Author: Rex Terpening is one of the very last of a breed of air engineers who flew with the bush pilots and shared all of the routine hazards they faced. Now in his late 80s, Rex is a perceptive observer who writes not only with an insight gained from a lifetime in aviation--much of it at the grassroots level--but with humor and sensitivity.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18860
- Title
- Bent Props & Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying
- Author
- Terpening, Rex
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1550172875
- ISBN 13
- 9781550172874
- Publisher
- Harbour Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Madeira Park, British Columbia, Canada
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8 vo
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