The Accidental Airline: Spilsbury’s QCA

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pp. 248. “This is the history of the accidental airline and those incredible years of flying, growing, and scrambling. There’s the trip from Vancouver to the Queen Charlottes and back that took eleven days and three airplanes; the Waco covered with lamp-black, inside and out; the fatally jinxed Stranraer; and the twelve-gallon ice cream sundae in the muskeg. There are tales of mercy flights, tragic crashes, and miraculous rescues and escapes, and many entertaining details of the luck, business skill, and hard work needed to keep an airline aloft.”

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Book Information

ISBN 0920080979
ISBN13 9780920080979
Number of pages 248
Original Title The Accidental Airline: Spilsbury's QCA
Published Date 1988
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Very Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Madeira Park
Edition First Edition
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Authors:,
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pp. 248. “This is the history of the accidental airline and those incredible years of flying, growing, and scrambling. There’s the trip from Vancouver to the Queen Charlottes and back that took eleven days and three airplanes; the Waco covered with lamp-black, inside and out; the fatally jinxed Stranraer; and the twelve-gallon ice cream sundae in the muskeg. There are tales of mercy flights, tragic crashes, and miraculous rescues and escapes, and many entertaining details of the luck, business skill, and hard work needed to keep an airline aloft.”

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Weight 1 kg