Glacier Pilot by Beth Day

Author: Beth Day
eBook Title: Glacier Pilot
ISBN10: 1578332249
ISBN13: 978-1578332243
Language: English
Publisher: Todd Communications (January 1, 2003)
Category: Biographies & Memoris
Subcategory: Travelers & Explorers
Size ePub vers.: 1668 kb
Size PDF vers.: 1890 kb
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This is the story of Bob Reeve, Alaska's first, most daring and most accomplished bush pilot. In 1932 he arrived in Valdez with no money, no plane and ill health. He soon made a career of doing the kind of flying that no one else wanted to do and earned the description of the the greatest rough-terrain pilot of our continent. He developed a successful commercial airline operating in the worst weather in the world along the fog-shrouded Aleutian chain, perfected the art of landing on glaciers, and engineered special devices for his plane that enabled him to achieve unheard-of performance at high altitudes.