Mid-Air Moose Jaw is a tribute to those who paid with their lives to make aviation safer yet never to take that safety for granted. Since 1954 flying has become much safer with advanced technology. /rebates/2f97803120291972fFreefall-Hoffer-William-Marilyn-Mona-03120291952fplp&. At the same time the book reminds administrators and legislators of their responsibility to act diligently and promptly to potential aviation hazards. Mid-Air Moose Jaw challenges pilots to practice proper collision avoidance techniques. While some readers may find this aspect technical, the book is balanced with the human and sociological aspects following the disaster. How and why this mid-air collision took place is covered extensively with careful reference to the three Boards of inquiry. While newspaper coverage of this disaster was extensive, Mid-Air Moose Jaw ferrets out many untold anecdotes giving the reader a greater in-depth understanding of this horrific disaster. Varied eyewitnesses accounts and surviving family members recollections are included. Many Moose Jaw residents witnessed the collision. Ross School, with 350 students was a mere 400 feet from the crash site. The airliner crashed into a home on Third Avenue Northeast, killing Martha Hadwen, the only fatality from Moose Jaw. A NATO Harvard training plane and a Trans Canada Air-Lines North Star collided in clear weather with the loss of thirty-seven lives. Mid-Air Moose Jaw explores the mystery and expels the rumors of the 1954 mid-air collision over the city of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

Author Dan McCaffery highlights a diverse spectrum of planes from the pioneer era to the modern day each plane is profiled individually, accompanied by historical and contemporary visuals and colour artwork.īush Planes and Bush Pilots is an attractive book that will appeal to all who are interested in aviation history and the story of Canada's development as a nation.

It is a celebration of some of the greatest moments in Canadian history, when daring young pilots defied incredible odds to open up some of the nation's remotest regions to the outside world. Jack Hunter tracked rumrunners off the New Brunswick coast in his Fairchild.īush Planes and Bush Pilots is the story of sixteen extraordinary aircraft found in the collections of Canada's aviation museums. In February 1932 legendary bush pilot Wilfrid May used his Bellanca Pacemaker to hunt down the notorious killer Albert Johnson, the 'Mad Trapper of Rat River.' Russ Baker used his Junkers W34 to pluck 24 men from a Yukon mountainside after three bombers crashed in apalling weather in 1942.

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