Flight from the croft
Innes, Bill2019
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As a barefoot lad in the Outer Hebrides, Bill Innes dreamed the impossible dream of becoming a pilot and this book tells how that dream came to pass. The author's career of over forty years spanned a period of incredible advances in the air - now regarded as a golden era in aviation. After gaining his RAF wings in Canada he really started to learn his trade by flying pre-war Dakotas for British European Airways around the Highlands and Islands of Scotland - one of the most testing aviation-operating areas in the world. The experience was to stand him in good stead as he moved to London to fly classic 20th century British aircraft such as the Viscount, Comet, Vanguard and Trident. The narrative comes alive through tales of the many characters encountered in a time before flight recorders.
Flight from the croft / Bill Innes.
Innes, Bill, author
Dunbeath, Caithness : Whittles Publishing, 2019.
224 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
9781849953979 (pbk)
English
2452494