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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. 2nd. His books with Howard White made a bestselling author out of Jim Spilsbury the BC coasts legendary pioneer painter photographer aviator inventor and raconteur Now all three volumes of the Spilsbury saga are available in trade paperbackJim Spilsbury bought an airplane in 1943 when wartime restrictions prevented the use of his boat to visit the upcoast camps and settlements where he repaired radios From this innocent beginning grew Queen Charlotte Airlines and when he sold the business to Pacific Western Airlines twelve years later it was the third largest airline in CanadaThis is the history of the accidental airline and those incredible years of flying growing and scrambling Theres the trip from Vancouver to the Queen Charlottes and back that took eleven days and three airplanes the Waco covered with lampblack inside and out the fatally jinxed Stranraer and the twelvegallon ice cream sundae in the muskeg There are tales of mercy flights tragic crashes and miraculous rescues and escapes and many entertaining details of the luck business skill and hard work needed to keep an airline aloftAffectionately known as Queer Collection of Aircraft by the loggers pregnant homesteaders and touring 1950s movie stars who rode its ungainly Flying Boxcars through rain and fog QCA beat out the competition to reign for one glorious decade as the queen of the booming postwar coast Theres never been an airline quite like the QCA and theres never been a flying story quite like The Accidental Airline. Seller Inventory # DADAX155017097X
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