Flying Canucks: Famous Canadian Aviators

by Peter Pigott

Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nation's history.

As early as 1908, having read the Wright brothers' invention, Alberta farm boys and mechanics in Quebec villages were constructing large kites, attempting to fly them. Within a decade, Canadian air aces, like Bishop and Barker, swept the wartime skies over Frances, piloting deadly machines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888821751
• ISBN13: 9780888821751
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"