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Noel Wien: Alaska Pioneer Bush Pilot

Autor Ira Harkey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iul 1999
From his days as one of Alaska's earliest bush pilots through the years spent developing Wien Air Alaska with his brothers, Noel Wien built up a long list of firsts: he was first to fly commercially from Fairbanks to Nome and from Fairbanks to Seattle, first to fly from Anchorage to Fairbanks, first to fly and land beyond the Arctic Circle, and first to make a round-trip flight between Alaska and Asia.
 
Wien shared a vision to bring commercial aviation to the Far North, and he acted on it.  He had 538 hours of barnstorming and aerial circus stunt flying behind him when he arrived in Alaska in 1924.  At that time, Alaska's rugged terrain permitted little more than primitive means of communication and transportation.  There were no air charts and no radio communication.  Navigation depended solely on a pilot's use of natural features of checkpoints, but the innumerable rivers and mountains too easily could look identical.  Safe landing sites were scarce.  Wien embraced the challenge presented by these obstacles with courage tempered by his native caution - not to mention exceptional talent and a boundless love of flying.  Before long, supplies could be taken to settlements previously serviced only by dog sled and sick persons could be transported quickly to hospitals.
 
In this dramatic account of a flying hero, Pulitzer Prize winning author Ira Harkey describes Wien's experiences in an engaging style, and he establishes Wien's place in Alaska history.  In the process, Harkey makes a valuable contribution towards an understanding of the Alaska of the recent past and the people who lived there.
 
This commemorative edition marks the 75th anniversary of Noel Wien's arrival in Alaska as well as his pioneering flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks.  It includes additional photographs and an informative new foreword by Cole.
 
Noel Wien pursued his vision through decades of wild experiences in an unyielding land.  His aviation milestones brought the people of Alaska closer and helped open Alaska to the outside world.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781889963167
ISBN-10: 188996316X
Pagini: 307
Ilustrații: black and white photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Alaska Press
Colecția University of Alaska Press

Notă biografică

In 1963 Ira Harkey received a Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing and was Carnegie Visiting Professor at the University of Alaska in 1968 to 1969.  He is the author of The Smell of Burning Crosses (1967)

Cuprins

Illustrations
Foreword
Preface

Part I
1. Wheels
2. Wings
3. Student
4. Solo
5. Barnstromer
6. Bondage
7. Homecoming
8. Circus
9. Westward
10. Hungry

Part II
11. Alaska
12. Anchorage
13. Plucky Airmen
14. Fairbanks
15. Bush
16. Outside
17. Arctic
18. Down Alone
19. Looking
20. Nome
Part III
21. Hiatus 1926
22. North Again
23. At the Arthurs’
24. Courtship
25. Moose Ptarmigan
26. Winter
27. Blue Christmas
28. Vanished
29. Rescue
30. Smallpox
Part IV
31. Siberia
32. Search
33. Tragedy
34. Into the Thirties
35. Night Race
36. Tri-Motor
37. One-Eyed Pilot with a Limp
38. Our Baby Still
39. Since
Index