Pioneer Bush Pilot
The Story of Noel Wien
Harkey, Ira
Bantam Air & Space Series 10
This book was first published in 1974
The pioneering spirit was strong in 25-year-old Noel Wien when he uncrated his Standard biplane in Anchorage in 1924. It had to be. His was one of the first airplanes to fly in Alaska. Unfamiliar with the terrain, he almost didn't make it into the deep interior on that first journey, particularly as part of the way he had to grope through a hundred miles of forest-fire smoke, without benefit of compass, radio, weather forecast, or even an accurate chart.
Thus began perhaps one of the most amazing careers in aviation. The staggering conditions of flying Alaska's interior in the primitive aircraft of the 1920s and 1930s never fazed Noel Wien. In the skilled hands of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ira Harkey, the story of Wien's mastery of the skies in the Far North becomes a gripping narrative of an authentic aviation hero - a man who really lived the high adventure.
Softcover
360 Seiten / pages
some illustrations
very good condition
New York - Toronto - London - Sydney - Auckland - 1991 - Bantam Books
Art.Nr. 20688
