Wingwalkers: The Story of Canadian Airlines International,New

Wingwalkers: The Story of Canadian Airlines International,New

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With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changesCanadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines Internationaltransformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier. This revised edition brings the airline's story up to date with a new final chapter chronicling the corporate dogfight in Canada's skies that led to CAI's takeover by Air Canada.Wingwalkers begins in the early 1920s when millions of dollars were made by the brave and resourceful people who took advantage of exciting new technologies in transportation and communication. It shows how the growth of aviation in a rugged and sprawling nation depended on such largerthanlife characters as Punch Dickins, 'the greatest bush pilot of them all,' first commercial pilot to cross the Arctic Circle and a later company vice president; Wop May, a bush pilot who achieved fame for flying antitoxin in bitter cold to Little Red River, Alberta during a diphtheria outbreak; the charismatic Grant McConachie, an original pilot for Canadian Pacific Airlines who later led the airline through its heyday as company president; and Max Ward, a former pilot and owner of Wardair, a struggling company purchased by CAI under a storm of controversy. Accompanied by over 150 revealing photographs, the book also shows how the westernbased independents found themselves in perpetual conflict with Ottawa after the creation of governmentowned Trans Canada Airlines, which became Air Canada.From early spellbinding tales of daredevil aviators to the influential decisions made by hardnosed business men, Wingwalkers is a meticulously researched history of the important role Canada's other airline played in shaping our nation.

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