Flying North South East and West: Arctic to the Sahara (Softcover)

ISBN: 9780595878994 Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. Author of Book: Reece, Captain Terry

RECIPE FOR ADVENTURE

Logger, smokejumper, doodle bugger, bush pilot, hunting and fishing guide, polar pilot, gold miner, cargo pilot, airline pilot… How much can you cram into one lifetime? Born into a family of transplanted North Carolinians, a childhood spent roaming the hills of the Pacific Northwest gave one young pilot a taste for adventure – and a first flying lesson that ended in billowing dust, ripped metal, broken Plexiglas, and gasps of surprise from fledgling pilots amazed to find themselves still breathing.

From icy Arctic expeditions to desperate flights out of the desert with machine guns pointed at his gut… From steaming nights in Rangoon to delivering aircraft to Libya under cover…Flying North is filled with humor, danger, and compassion, told from the point of view of taking a look back, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, at the follies of youth that we all can appreciate.

This is more than a great book about aviation, it’s also the true story of a young couple in an era now gone; a story interwoven with flying that extends from the North Pole to the heat and heart of Africa. So climb into the cockpit, fasten your seat belt, and join these two as they head north to Alaska and beyond in the early Sixties. Enjoy the flight!

Flying from the frozen expanses of the Arctic to the hot sands of Africa and beyond, Captain Terry E. Reece has logged over twenty thousand hours in the cockpit. Terry spent over forty years as a captain, chief pilot, check pilot, chief cook and bottle washer, logger, miner, smokejumper, president of an airline training company, and owner of a float plane service in Homer, Alaska. Terry still acts as a consultant to the airline industry. He was able to help revive the Hercules operations in Alaska by assisting Lynden Air Cargo in their certification and organization as a new cargo carrier.