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Bent Props & Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying 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 stra

Bent Props & Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying


Title:Bent Props & Blow Pots: A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying
Author:Rex Terpening
Rating:4.96 (602 Votes)
Id Book:1550172875
Format Type:Hardcover
Number of Pages:338 Pages
Publish Date:2003-11-04
Type File:PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub


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, refuelling, 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 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 be
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.

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