Flying Canucks
By: Peter Piggot
For most of its existence, this country has been identified with one form of transportation or another. The birchbark canoe, the steam locomotive, and at the dawn of this century, flimsy contraptions held together with wire and muslin … all were pivotal to our national identity. This book is not a comprehensive collection of biographies of Canadians who pioneered aviation or aspired to do so. It focuses on a certain phase in our history barely one lifetime that of the evolution of aviation inCanada. On one level, the men and women chosen took a piece of applied science and changed our country forever. It has not been possible, even with the most diligent searching, to document fully the lives of several aviators and it would be futile to analyze why they embarked on the courses that they did. [download]
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For most of its existence, this country has been identified with one form of transportation or another. The birchbark canoe, the steam locomotive, and at the dawn of this century, flimsy contraptions held together with wire and muslin … all were pivotal to our national identity. This book is not a comprehensive collection of biographies of Canadians who pioneered aviation or aspired to do so. It focuses on a certain phase in our history barely one lifetime that of the evolution of aviation inCanada. On one level, the men and women chosen took a piece of applied science and changed our country forever. It has not been possible, even with the most diligent searching, to document fully the lives of several aviators and it would be futile to analyze why they embarked on the courses that they did. [download]
Format : Ebook.Pdf
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