ERNEST K. GANN'S FLYING CIRCUS
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Characteristics
| ISBN-10 | 0-02-542400-9 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special Features | Dust Jacket |
| Condition | Damaged Dust Jacket |
| Author(s) | Ernest K. Gann |
| Publisher | Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Published date |
First Printing 1974 Printed in the United States of America |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 18 x 26 x 2.9 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION CIVILE • AVIATION LÉGÈRE • BIOGRAPHIES |
Description
"Flying is no longer a gypsy-like, adventure-promising way of life, and never will be again. . .. The dash and peculiar character of the men involved changed very little with the advent of the jet era. . .. The aircraft they flew were internationally a very mixed bag ranging from clurasy and dangerous to splendid aristocrats."
ERNEST K.GANN'S FLYING CIRCUS is a treasure of stories about these adventurous men and their planes in an age of flight infinitely more exciting than the supersonic era.
A treasury of flying nostalgia by a master aviator and storyteller.
Ernest K. Gann began his love affair with flight in 1935, barnstorming in various wood and fabric bi-planes. Later, as an airline pilot, he flew to many parts of the world in a wide variety of the aircraft, from lumbering trimotored Fords to the latest jets. He shared the world's skies with many of the gallant airmen he writes about here.
Gann traces the development in America of the commercial use of airplanes through the early days of airmail, air cargo, and the first passenger airlines. With you-are-there immediacy, he takes the reader aboard such planes as the United Air Lines Boeing 40-B-4 delivering newspapers to the ranger station in Oregon; the "Flying Brooklyn Bridge," the 1936 Condor for which pilots developed an almost maudlin affection; the "Tin Goose," Ford's incomparable tri-motored 4A-T; the incredible DC-3, which has cruised every sky known to mankind—and many other "clumsy and dangerous to splendid aristocrats" among planes on both sides of the Atlantic.
On the international scene, there are stories of Aéropostale's flights across the Andes and in Saint-Exupéry country; Sabena in the Congo; Imperial Airway's deluxe flights in Scipios when Britain ruled the skies; BOAC's Lockheed, known as "Bashful Gertie," which shuttled bravely from Scotland to Sweden for essential ball bearings during World War II; and scores of other aircraft that have made aeronautical history.