Winging It!

Jack Jefford, Pioneer Alaskan Aviator

Jack Jefford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2011 | Second Edition, Illustrated
Alaska Northwest Books (Verlag)
978-0-88240-816-3 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Jack Jefford saw his first plane in 1916 at the age of six and he was hooked. By 1937 he was flying planes in Nome, Alaska and in three short years he became the Chief Pilot of the FAA. He daily faced the dangers of Alaska’s skies, helped settle a frontier, and managed to survive long enough to share a lifetime of stories—delivering mail by plane, hunting coyotes, counting reindeer, transporting prisoners and congressmen, and rescuing the lost and injured, often at great risk to himself.

Mark Fisher is the founder of the Spring Integration project. Currently at VMware, he continues to lead the development of Spring Integration while exploring the intersection of big data and messaging. He has been a committer on a number of Spring projects, including the Spring Framework itself and Spring AMQP, which he cofounded. Mark speaks regularly at conferences and user groups about messaging, data, integration, and cloud computing.

Foreword by Carmen Jefford Fisher                             Page 11

Part 1: Riding the Grub Line                                   Pages 15 - 58

    Becoming a Pilot, The Voice from the Sky,

    Riding the Grub Line, Barnstorming,

    Coyote Slayer, Crossroads, Broken Bow,

    Flying the Weather, Hastings, Kelly One & Kelly Two,

Part 2: Foul-Weather Flyer                           Pages 59 - 96

    Nome, Working the Mines, Henry Gumm Goes South,

    and Brother Hansen Returns Home, To Cordova in the Vega,

    Foul-Weather Flyer, The Crackups

Part 3: There's More to the Job than Flying       Pages 97 - 152

    The Girls and the Godfather, Gold Fever,

    The Reindeer Study, Progress in the Cockpit,

    Crash on the Darby Mountains, Groping up the

    Yukon, Guiding the Columbia, Evacuation of Jack Devine,

    Stinson-A Trimotor, The Marshall and Miss Alaska,

    Missing Pilots, The Reindeer Acquisition.

Part 4: Patrol Pilot                                                   Pages 153 - 196

    Signed on with the CAA, General Buckner,

    DLAND at West Ruby, Injured Man Aboard,

    War, The Queen Mary, Horning's Ordeal,

    The Boeing 247, A Tale of Two Cessnas,

Part 5: King Chris                                                   Pages 197 - 235

     King Chris, Wartime Flight to Attu,

     A Night at North Shore Umnak, The Waipio Inveiglement,

    Shungnak Snafu, Torture Flight to Seattle, Summer

    Landing, CAA Christmas, They Come and They Go,

Part 6: Gold Medalist                                            Pages 236 - 285

    Hinchinbrook Beach Landing, Tragedy at

    Port Heiden, Fuel Oil Blues, The Rescue

    of Cliff Uzzell, Juneau Backfire, The Black Cat's

    Path, Taylor Weather, Fiddling Around in Nome,

    Gold Medalist

Part 7: Into the Jet Age                                    Pages 286 - 314

    N-123, Trouble in the C-123, The Flying X-Rays,

    Saberliner Jet School, McKinley Rescue,

    Back to Nome on the Iditarod

Index                                                                         Pages 315 - 319

Epitaph: Jack Jefford 1910 - 1979                       Page 320

Reihe/Serie	Caribou Classics
Co-Autor	Ms. Carmen Jefford Fisher, Mark Fisher
Mitarbeit	Koordination: Cliff Cernick
Verlagsort	Portland
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Luftfahrt / Raumfahrt
ISBN-10	0-88240-816-X / 088240816X
ISBN-13	978-0-88240-816-3 / 9780882408163
Zustand	Neuware