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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 humour, 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, he 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.
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 humour, 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, he 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.
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 80's 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 humour and sensitivity.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Fahrzeuge |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Fahrzeuge/Flugzeuge/Schiffe/Allgemeines |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781550177572 |
| ISBN-10: | 1550177575 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Terpening, Rex |
| Hersteller: | Harbour Publishing |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rex Terpening |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.11.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,513 kg |
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 80's 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 humour and sensitivity.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Fahrzeuge |
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Hobby & Freizeit |
| Thema: | Fahrzeuge/Flugzeuge/Schiffe/Allgemeines |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781550177572 |
| ISBN-10: | 1550177575 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Terpening, Rex |
| Hersteller: | Harbour Publishing |
| Maße: | 229 x 152 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rex Terpening |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 18.11.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,513 kg |
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